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An elderly man, full of years, potters about in his garden
“Never practice more than three or four hours a day. No one can concentrate longer than that, and you must spend the rest of your time learning about life and love and art and all the other wonderful things in the world. If a young person sits in the practice room all day, what can he possibly have to express in his music?”
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“Letters are nothing but dead signs, and books are their coffins.”
― Om høsten
― Om høsten
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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?”
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“Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.”
― The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
― The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
“I share the feeling with many that the appeal of scientific research is to open our minds to the amazement generated by progressive knowledge rather than to close our minds with an ephemeral sense of certainty.”
― The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
― The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages
Women and Men
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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
The Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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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
East of Eden Readalong
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"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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