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“I thought every person should live for art, not just me, and furthermore, why would I want to be normal? Why would I want to be stupid like everyone else?”
― An Unnecessary Woman
― An Unnecessary Woman
“Maybe that was how to heal. I told myself stories and learned that I could be made of the ones I chose to tell, not simply the ones that life had laid haphazardly around me.”
― The Long Night of White Chickens
― The Long Night of White Chickens
“I know. You think you love art because you have a sensitive soul.
Isn't a sensitive soul simply a means of transforming a deficiency into proud disdain?
You think art has meaning. You think you're not like me.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
Isn't a sensitive soul simply a means of transforming a deficiency into proud disdain?
You think art has meaning. You think you're not like me.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
“But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women. For the face, time relays some essential message, and time is the message. It takes things away. But its passage, its damages, are all we have. Without it, there's nothing.”
― The Flamethrowers
― The Flamethrowers
“The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.”
― The Flamethrowers
― The Flamethrowers
DFW - The Broom of the System (group read)
— 22 members
— last activity Dec 26, 2011 03:08PM
We will be reading David Foster Wallace's "The Broom of the System," starting October 1, 2011. Here's the reading schedule: https://docs.google.com/sp ...more
Simmons GSLIS Book Group
— 37 members
— last activity Apr 04, 2013 06:39AM
Professor Mary Wilkins Jordan founded the GSLIS Book Group in February 2011. Its purpose is to bring GSLIS students together once a month for somethin ...more
CPL Noir Book Club
— 3 members
— last activity Nov 20, 2012 08:52AM
This the official Unofficial Noir Book Club of the CPL. Once a month, we'll get together to have a snack and discuss a book. Unofficially, of course. ...more
Salt Lake City Public Library
— 347 members
— last activity Dec 02, 2016 08:20AM
The City Library's Goodreads Group is intended as a persistent online presence for Book Club discussions, as well as to facilitate the creation and ma ...more
SLC Book Swap
— 10 members
— last activity Dec 29, 2015 02:26PM
This is a group for people in the SLC area to borrow books from other bookworms, as well as give recommendations and nerd out about "tropes" and "moti ...more
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