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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)

by George R.R. Martin

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American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)

by Philip Roth

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James’s Quotes

“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

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“How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and couldn’t die no matter how hard they tried.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

tags: conflict, futility-of-war, humanity

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“Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour.”
― W.A. Neilson, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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“Prophet of evil I ever am to myself: forced for ever into sorrowful auguries that I have no power to hide from my own heart, no, not through one night's solitary dreams.”
― Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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“Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

tags: catholic-nonsense, difference-of-opinions, intolerance, religious-bigotry, religious-violence, transubstantiation

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This is the Goodreads home for the St. Petersburg, Florida, Book Club. The St. Pete Book Club is comprised of a well-rounded, well-read group of peopl ...more