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The Starving Saints

by Caitlin Starling (Goodreads Author)

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Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

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The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal (The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal) by K.J. Charles

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I AM, MY FRIENDS AGREE, a fairly easy-going sort of chap, not quick to anger or to fear. Thus, when I came to live in Caldwell Place, I paid no mind to the screams in the night, which could well have been foxes or cats (never mind that they ...more

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“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: drama, humor, plays

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“All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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