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Thomas Mann
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

Theodore Roethke
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

Anton Chekhov
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
Anton Chekhov

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

Robert Musil
“One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”
Robert Musil

80277 The Kindred Spirits — 300 members — last activity Sep 23, 2025 07:28AM
Place to meet and talk about anything.
9541 Listomania — 447 members — last activity Jan 06, 2022 04:03PM
I have not yet found anywhere on GoodReads for people to post their booklists! (Listopia doesn't count as they are not personal lists, but community o ...more
35402 Loosed in Translation — 532 members — last activity Mar 06, 2026 05:09PM
Are you interested in world literature, and works in translation? Come here for recommendations, resources, links, advice on who the best translator o ...more
40475 The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on) — 162 members — last activity Jan 27, 2026 07:27PM
*Note: This group, although it lives on in a sense, like a photograph, capturing a moment so people can look back later and go, "Oh, wow, you looked s ...more
15336 fiction files redux — 295 members — last activity Oct 10, 2022 09:43AM
this is a literary love-in, baby . . . books, literature, fiction of all shapes and sizes, these things we discuss . . . make yourself at home, check ...more
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