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“Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”
― Henry James

tags: sorrow

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“I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...”
― Nick Hornby, Songbook

tags: music

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“Only connect!”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

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“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy

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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
― Henry Miller

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Contemporary British Literary Fiction — 169 members — last activity Oct 10, 2017 09:47AM
A place to discuss the likes of Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Zadie Smith. I'll post reviews of some books to get things started, and ...more

Booker List — 146 members — last activity May 26, 2018 07:54PM
This club discusses and reviews the long and the short lists of the Man Booker Prize and for the forth coming years will nominate books that should ma ...more

Literary Prizes — 267 members — last activity Jul 08, 2012 07:00AM
A place to discuss the Booker, the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Newbery, and/or any other literary awards.

Discussing the Orange Prize — 6 members — last activity Jul 29, 2012 04:04AM
A forum to discuss the books nominated for the Orange Prize, both past and present.

The Penguin Press — 1456 members — last activity Mar 28, 2017 12:09PM
Welcome to our Goodreads Group for The Penguin Press! We like to say that we publish "ideas that matter and storytelling that lasts," and some of our ...more

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