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“Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.”
― Super Sad True Love Story
― Super Sad True Love Story
“But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.”
― Assassination Vacation
― Assassination Vacation
“That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.”
― Super Sad True Love Story
― Super Sad True Love Story
“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― The Chosen
― The Chosen
Wodehouse cracks me up
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All Wodehouse, all the time. From Psmith to Blandings, from Uncle Fred to the incomparable Jeeves. Step right up, you'll be Right Ho-ing and stealing ...more
Ask Gary Shteyngart - Friday, March 7th!
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Join us on Friday, March 7th, for a special discussion with author Gary Shteyngart! The author will be discussing his book Little Failure. Become a f ...more
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science, Suspense, Spirituality, Travel, War, british-fiction, and french-literature
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