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Emrys
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by Ted Kessler
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“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
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“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”
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“But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.”
― Illyria
― Illyria
“Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.”
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”
― Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
― Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
ALATT Book Club
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— last activity Mar 09, 2015 05:24AM
Hey everyone! I've always wanted to run a book club and I want to #makeithappen with the best of librarians I know how! Let's do a monthly book club! ...more
The PR
— 28 members
— last activity Aug 19, 2008 08:34AM
The Pulchritudinous Review is an arts magazine with an emphasis on avant garde poetry and graphic art. Renee Zepeda is editing and compiling the secon ...more
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— last activity Apr 30, 2015 10:51PM
A place to post deadlines and guidelines and purses and questions and encouragement re: contests and awards for fiction and poetry.
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— last activity Nov 16, 2017 08:34AM
The official book club for the book-loving fans of the LJ community Oh No They Didn't. Share suggestions for books, talk about books, tell your fellow ...more
The Mary Sue Books and More Club
— 878 members
— last activity Dec 11, 2018 09:04AM
A place for The Mary Sue regulars to gather and exchange favorite books, reviews, and all other types of information. We are not officially affiliat ...more
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