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“The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
“My goal is to allow readers their own experience of whatever discovery I have made, so that it feels new to them, but also familiar, in that it is a piece with their own experience. It is a form of serious play.”
― The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work
― The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work
“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
“I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?”
― 'Tis
― 'Tis
“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
Letter Writers Alliance Book Club
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A reading group for letter writers and mail lovers. We will focus on books that have to do with mail, letters, typewriters, fountain pens, and other p ...more
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