Lesley

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Lesley’s Quotes

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, Valis

tags: qotd

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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

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Goodreads Librarians Group — 345051 members — last activity 2 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Literary Escapism — 220 members — last activity Apr 04, 2014 03:30PM
Welcome to my alternate reality. Escaping into new worlds, meeting new characters and exploring different societies is the only way we have of leaving ...more

Book Guys & Book Girls — 242 members — last activity Jul 17, 2016 10:37PM
A Group for listeners of The Book Guys Show & The Book Girls Show. ...more

Book Boyfriends — 1496 members — last activity Oct 09, 2025 06:16AM
We now have a group to have our discussions or fights over our book boyfriends. Loving fictional boys since December 19, 2011.

The DeFranco Book Club — 4529 members — last activity Jul 13, 2026 09:29PM
Lets read lots of books together before our brains turn to mush. Delicious delicious mush. #1) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell #2) The Art of Racing in ...more

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