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"I haven't read the preface which, along with the bibliography is 43 pages long, so the story only starts on page 47 and I've really only read 9 pages. Gosh, my French is rusty!!" — Jul 15, 2026 04:24AM
"I haven't read the preface which, along with the bibliography is 43 pages long, so the story only starts on page 47 and I've really only read 9 pages. Gosh, my French is rusty!!" — Jul 15, 2026 04:24AM
“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
― Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
“For some years he had felt weighing on him the burden of loneliness which sometimes overwhelms old bachelors. He had been strong, active and cheerful, spending his days in sport, and his evenings in amusement. Now he was growing dull, and no longer took interest in anything. Exercise tired him, suppers and even dinners made him ill, while women bored him as much as they had once amused him.”
― 88 Short Stories
― 88 Short Stories
“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
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