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“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”
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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
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“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”
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“When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book-to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
― I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
History: Actual, Fictional and Legendary
— 1212 members
— last activity Feb 07, 2026 09:18AM
This group is for anyone whose interest in History goes beyond textbooks. While I enjoy reading books that cover actual events and actual people, I al ...more
The History Book Club
— 26195 members
— last activity 17 hours, 24 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Challenge: 50 Books
— 4302 members
— last activity 8 hours, 46 min ago
This group is for people who want to be challenged to read 50 books in one year. Start the challenge by creating a post with the title of your chall ...more
Memoirs on Adversity
— 202 members
— last activity May 02, 2022 12:32PM
This is a group for people who enjoy reading memoirs/biographies/autobiographies about people who have overcome great adversity in their lifetime.
The Armchair Traveler's Club
— 178 members
— last activity Jun 18, 2023 01:51AM
"He had learned the art of storytelling in the Orient, where storytellers are highly regarded. Indeed, they are magicians and play with the souls of t ...more
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