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5* on my first read eight years ago. Second reading was very mixed. Each part had some great ideas fleshed out very well, but also some tedious plodding along. It has a good finish, but it felt like I had to work so hard to get there. I really like R
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There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.
“It is significant ..... that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?”
― Lost Horizon
― Lost Horizon
“So there is some justice in this world, though not a lot.”
― The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
― The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
“This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.”
― Secrets at Sea
― Secrets at Sea
“The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively, the will of man and the lunacy of God.”
― Lost Horizon
― Lost Horizon
“Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.”
― Inversions
― Inversions
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