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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

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

James   McBride
“Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn’t matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.”
James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

Marian Engel
“the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.”
Marian Engel

Karl Ove Knausgård
“Then I met Linda and the sun rose.
I can't find a better way to express it. The sun rose in my life. At first, as dawn breaking on the horizon, almost as if to say, this is where you have to look. Then came the first rays of sunshine, everything became clearer, lighter, more alive, and I became happier and happier, and then it hung in the sky of my life and shone and shone and shone.”
Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 2

25x33 The Toast — 548 members — last activity Nov 04, 2019 05:55AM
“A willing foe, and sea room.”
19860 Classics and the Western Canon — 4933 members — last activity 5 hours, 17 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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