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George Carlin
“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
George Carlin

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Helen Fielding
“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

George Bernard Shaw
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

Robert Frost
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Robert Frost

1254079 What next, now notifications are reduced, DMs abolished, so GR is dying? — 314 members — last activity Jun 10, 2026 08:01PM
On 20 Sept 2024, GR removed the option for email notifications, without telling users (unless they looked at the "help" page). In-app/web notification ...more
220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 331620 members — last activity 2 minutes ago
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942569 FG Preservation Society — 89 members — last activity 52 minutes ago
Private Group. An (unofficial) group for those of us who remember and mourn the loss of the Feedback Group.
186413 Read the World. — 177 members — last activity Nov 16, 2025 09:33PM
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