Barbara SG

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Barbara SG

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Barbara is Currently Reading

Anna Karenina

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by Leo Tolstoy

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Lies and Sorcery

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Lies and Sorcery

by Elsa Morante

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Barbara’s Quotes

C.E.M. Joad

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased

Haruki Murakami

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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Blaise Pascal

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
― Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal

“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées and Other Writings

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Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

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2026 Reading Challenge

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Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Paranormal, Philosophy, Science fiction, Suspense, and Spirituality

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