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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

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Never Look Away

by Linwood Barclay (Goodreads Author)

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Poetry Festival

by John Bettenbender

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James’s Quotes

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

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“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

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“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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“Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.”
― Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease

tags: god, humor

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“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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