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Sarah’s Quotes

“You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.”
― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice

tags: female, sherlock-holmes, talents

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“A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

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“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: contentment, home, hometown, new-york-city, new-yorker, optimism

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“That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.”
― Laurie R. King

tags: fear, hate, tears

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“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

tags: celebrity-culture, celebrity-worship, culture, false-dichotomy

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Dickinson College Alumni — 8 members — last activity Mar 21, 2009 09:09AM
This group is for alumni of Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA to discuss what they have read, want to read and to make suggestions to others of books ...more

WORD Bangin' Book Club — 79 members — last activity Jan 11, 2023 09:19AM
H had a sordid past, filled with salacious sex scenes, ravenous romance, and ink stained fingers. M had a filthy secret, disguised by book covers an ...more

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26967 members — last activity 1 hour, 45 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

DOBYNS FAMILY FRIENDS — 4 members — last activity Jan 02, 2016 08:13PM
The family and friends of the Dobyns family.