Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Della Ensor

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Della.


Loading...
Karl Marx
“The desire after hoarding is in its very nature unsatiable. In its qualitative aspect, or formally considered, money has no bounds to its efficacy, i.e., it is the universal representative of material wealth, because it is directly convertible into any other commodity. But, at the same time, every actual sum of money is limited in amount, and, therefore, as a means of purchasing, has only a limited efficacy. This antagonism between the quantitative limits of money and its qualitative boundlessness, continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. It is with him as it is with a conqueror who sees in every new country annexed, only a new boundary.”
― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

Mark Z. Danielewski
“Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, One Rainy Day in May

Tom Sechrist
“You never fail until you quit trying.”
― Tom Sechrist

Tim O'Brien
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
tags: war

Max Nowaz
“Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

year in books
Krassi ...
365 books | 911 friends

Elliott...
280 books | 26 friends

Sharron...
149 books | 17 friends

Cedrick...
269 books | 40 friends


City of God by Paulo LinsThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksCrash by J.G. BallardThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Best Books Ever
79,623 books — 296,682 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Della

Lists liked by Della