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George’s Quotes

“The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

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“Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.

Has it?”
― Dan Simmons, The Terror

tags: banalities, belief, brutish, francis-rawdon-moira-crozier, hidden-mysteries, hobbe-s-leviathan, life, miseries, nasty, poor, short, solitary

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“Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.”
― Dan Simmons, The Terror

tags: books, irony, salvation, self-destruction

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For people interested in keeping up with the modern literary classics. We will be reading fiction and fine literature from 2000 to present, with the i ...more

J.R.R. Tolkien — 3839 members — last activity Sep 12, 2025 09:16PM
Discussion, recommendations, and all-over appreciation for Britain's own myth maker, Professor J.R.R. Tolkien. ...more

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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

The World's Literature in Europe — 873 members — last activity Oct 01, 2025 03:50PM
Literature from across Europe: Wales *Family photo of 7 January 1892. Angharad (1876-1932) is on the very left. *Illustration of "Llanrhaiadr Hall: ...more

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