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“Be a little kind to yourself, please. If you can be whoever you want, wouldn't it be nice to be someone you liked?”
― Don't Sleep with the Dead
― Don't Sleep with the Dead
“We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?”
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“Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.”
― Rabbit Redux
― Rabbit Redux
“...when you’re young you think you’ll always be young. Then one day you suddenly wake up and you’re over fifty. And the names in the obituary columns are no longer anonymous old people. They’re your contemporaries and friends.”
― Valley of the Dolls
― Valley of the Dolls
“You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
Discovering Russian Literature
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Whether you are a newbie or an expert or simply love Russian literature... Welcome! This is a friendly group where you can share your thoughts an ...more
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
On the Southern Literary Trail
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Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more
Lost Generation
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— last activity Jul 02, 2015 03:59PM
In the epigraph to Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term 'lost generation' to describe the group of ...more
Bright Young Things
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...the perfect place for you to discuss your favourite authors from the early 20th Century. In the years from 1900 to 1945 the world of literature w ...more
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