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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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“Some inner images made you want to see beyond this world.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Absent One

tags: inspirational, life-quotes

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

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Real Christian — 538 members — last activity Mar 10, 2026 05:20AM
Hi! I created this group back in 2015 to share some life lessons and Biblical truths with other like minded believers, who--like me--wanted to know mo ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22532 members — last activity Apr 13, 2026 03:25PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Bloggers/Book Lovers from India — 2863 members — last activity Apr 23, 2026 10:26AM
A place for bloggers, readers and writers from India to connect. If you are outside India, and interested in books and Indian culture, please feel fre ...more

Camp Half-Blood — 5212 members — last activity Apr 23, 2026 09:51AM
Do you wish you could talk to animals or make flickering flames dance in your palm? Do you dream of riding a flying horse? Have you ever waved a stick ...more

The Christian Friends — 40 members — last activity Jul 05, 2018 10:10AM
A very accurate and good group to be in. We will talk about God and his creations every week or so! You don't have to be a Christian to join! ...more

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