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The Tennis Partner

by Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)

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McNeil’s Quotes

“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

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“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
― Edward Abbey

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“If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used to give it expression.”
― Edgar Watson Howe

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“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women," she advised me. "They can't always tell.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

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ENGL 1094 2015 — 54 members — last activity May 20, 2016 01:07AM
Over the summer, we will use this space to get to know each other and familiarize ourselves with the technology; in the fall, we will use this space t ...more

Honors LA3 2010-2011 — 31 members — last activity Apr 07, 2011 12:16PM
A place online to share thinking about books.

ENGL 1094 2016 — 18 members — last activity Apr 16, 2017 07:59PM
posts will be your thoughts, feelings, ideas, and observations about the story after a first reading. In addition, you will be required to engage in i ...more

Homo Erectus Liber Legentibus — 11 members — last activity Jun 04, 2019 10:38AM
This group will be a place to post books you read that you think will fit somewhere into our curriculum. This is a first stage in curriculum selection ...more

HLA3 — 23 members — last activity Sep 13, 2010 10:19AM
Summer reading and discussion group for American literature at KHS.

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