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Rose Webb

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“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: irony, want, wanting

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“Think I'll go eat me a doughnut and take me a nap.”
― Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer

tags: burnout

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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

tags: life, pain

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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

tags: interior-decorators

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“The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.”
― THOMAS HARDY

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Fiction Lover's Book Club — 56 members — last activity Jun 07, 2019 10:28AM
The Fiction Lover's Book Club meets at 6:30pm on the third Wednesday of most months at the Southwest Library, located at 900 Wesley Place, SW near Wat ...more

Literally Dead Book Club — 16516 members — last activity Feb 18, 2026 12:04PM
A mostly monthly book club (February-November) focused on thriller/mystery/horror hosted by BooksandLala and a rotating set of wonderful co-hosts! li ...more