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To lose someone close to you is to enter an experience no amount of forethought or hindsight can free you from. You must live through grief. You cannot outsmart it, nor think through the fact of someone’s being gone, and forever. You must
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
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[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
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The Next Best Book Club
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Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more
Goodreads Status Update Writing Contest
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Join this group to participate in or follow the Goodreads Status Update Writing Contest. Stories must be submitted before MARCH 1, 2009. Everyone on G ...more
¡ POETRY !
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
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