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“Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact on well-being and quality of life.”
― The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
― The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can’t wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can’t.”
― Secrets of a Charmed Life
― Secrets of a Charmed Life
“Ordinarily, anyone who made such a remark to my face would go to the top of my short list for strychnine.”
― Speaking from Among the Bones
― Speaking from Among the Bones
Divine Comedy + Decameron
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This group is for those interested in reading either or both Dante's Divine Comedy or Boccaccio's Decameron in 2014. Each read will be non-concurrent ...more
Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction
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The focus of this group is historical fiction set in Ancient and Medieval eras(with some post Medieval), in any geographical location. Preference is g ...more
Historical Fictionistas
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Welcome to Historical Fictionistas! We want to experience all different kinds of HF with all different kinds of people. The more diverse, the better. ...more
Constant Reader
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A forum for friendly discussion of classics, literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. We also love movies and art. Don't ask to join th ...more
Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction
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— last activity May 23, 2014 06:09AM
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Carmen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carmen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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