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Tom's Crossing

by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)

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Something Happened

by Joseph Heller

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"Brilliant though very painful novel" — Oct 08, 2024 10:13AM

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The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

by Arthur C. Clarke

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“Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.”
― Francis de Sales

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“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: fear, future, gratitude, love, past, present

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“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: criticism, freedom, freedom-of-thought, independence

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

tags: living

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“Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

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