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Jenny Offill
“How had she become one of those people who wears yoga pants all day? She used to make fun of those people. With their happiness maps and their gratitude journals and their bags made out of recycled tire treads. But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

Ivan Turgenev
“He has no faith in principles, only in frogs.”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

James   McBride
“We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come to Him. But it's easier on a soul to come to Him clean. You're forever free that way. From top to bottom.”
James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

Olivia Laing
“You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.”
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Richard Hughes
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies are of course not human--they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes: the same in kind as these, but much more complicated and vivid, since babies are, after all, one of the most developed species of the lower vertebrates.
In short, babies have minds which work in terms and categories of their own which cannot be translated into the terms and categories of the human mind.
It is true that they look human--but not so human, to be quite fair, as many monkeys.
Subconsciously, too, every one recognizes they are animals--why else do people always laugh when a baby does some action resembling the human, as they would at a praying mantis? If the baby was only a less-developed man, there would be nothing funny in it, surely.”
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

25x33 The Toast — 548 members — last activity Nov 04, 2019 05:55AM
“A willing foe, and sea room.”
19860 Classics and the Western Canon — 4931 members — last activity 4 hours, 19 min ago
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
2083 NYRB Classics — 1444 members — last activity Jan 18, 2026 04:51PM
For friends of NYRB Classics
60280 The Readers — 1002 members — last activity Oct 30, 2024 05:36AM
The Readers is a podcast by Simon Savidge of Savidge Reads and Thomas Otto of Hogglestock, they like to talk about books... alot!
85748 Charleston Book Lovers — 175 members — last activity Aug 13, 2021 10:25AM
A dynamic group of book lovers in Charleston, S.C., who meet once a month to discuss a book they have chosen.
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