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“Don't sleep with the dead. You're not one of them, after all.”
― Don't Sleep with the Dead
― Don't Sleep with the Dead
“...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
“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”
― Letters to Vera
― Letters to Vera
“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
“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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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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Lost Generation
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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
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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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