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England. One member of the House of Commons asked the Secretary of State whether, in the punishment of villages, care was taken that only the houses of the guilty parties should be destroyed. He was gravely told that great care was taken.
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“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."
(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)”
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(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)”
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“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
― Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
― Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
― Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
― Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Evanston Public Library Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Discussion Group
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A book group for fans of science fiction and fantasy at the Evanston Public Library in Evanston, Illinois! We meet on the first Wednesday of every mon ...more
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This is a light hearted, friendly group who enjoys Urban Fantasy. It's a place to talk about books and/or whatever else comes to mind. The rules? Pla ...more
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