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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“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry

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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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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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“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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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 — 221 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 — 1499 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 — 4530 members — last activity Nov 11, 2024 09:35PM
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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