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Book cover for Motherless Brooklyn
“Yeah.” Coney squinted through the windshield, trying to work an angle. As he edged to the right the K-car suddenly cut out of the flow, moving to the far left. We both stared for a moment. “Whuzzat?” said Coney. “E-Z Pass,” I said. ...more
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Andrea Moro
“The brain is a trashcan, though perhaps the best of all possible trashcans.”
Andrea Moro, The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages

Hermann Hesse
“Thus the struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after year from school to school. The authorities go to infinite pains to nip the few profound or more valuable intellects in the bud. And time and again the ones who are detested by their teachers are frequently punished, the runaways and those expelled, are the ones who afterwards add to society's treasure. But some - and who knows how many? - waste away quiet obstinacy and finally go under.”
Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel

Andrea Moro
“Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.”
Andrea Moro, The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages

Gretchen McCulloch
“Language's only known predator is other people: many languages have been stamped out or imposed on others through war or conquest.”
Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Karl Ove Knausgård
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I have a theory, almost all writers I know of are in some way or another… wrecked, or destroyed, you know, something is broken. Why should you write if that’s not so? I mean it takes so much to write, why should you bother?”
Karl Ove Knausgård

79477 Women and Men — 232 members — last activity Mar 22, 2026 12:56AM
Women and Men began as a reading group for Joseph McElroy's masterpiece. It has developed into All Things McElroy. We have chapter threads for discuss ...more
4854 The Virginia Woolf Reading Group — 340 members — last activity Aug 04, 2023 01:15AM
This group is for anyone who knows (or wants to know) about Virginia Woolf. If you have read all her works or none, loved her books or hated them, t ...more
587239 East of Eden Readalong — 26 members — last activity Jul 04, 2018 08:03AM
"The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up th ...more
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