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“The “banker’s way” meant that you were not fit for acting, not able to channel passion, not sensitive to the subtleties of human nature. In other words, you were a creature of the material world and therefore neither welcomed nor suited to this life, where money was regarded with disdain and personal sacrifice was the order of the day.”
― Born with Teeth
― Born with Teeth
“I laughed, disarmed. "Shopping isn't really my thing. Not when there are bookstores to be plundered and tombs to be explored.”
― Born with Teeth
― Born with Teeth
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
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“The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless.”
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“I wanted to teach them that rejection, and the sadness that attended it, were an integral part of loving something passionately and therefore nothing to be ashamed of.”
― Born with Teeth
― Born with Teeth
Moments of Reading: A Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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This group has been created to discuss the works of Virginia Woolf in its broadest sense. It helps new readers in finding their way in her works, it e ...more
The Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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This group is for anyone who knows (or wants to know) about Virginia Woolf. If you have read all her works or none, loved her books or hated them, t ...more
Jane Austen
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Established July 2007. Readers of Jane, gather here to discuss anything from Frank Churchill's secrets to Lady Catherine's whims. What finally "persua ...more
British Literature
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For all those who love anything that is either written about and/or by authors from the British Isles.
Baker Street Irregulars
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Book club devoted to the great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his dear friend and colleague Dr. John Watson. We choose, read and discuss a p ...more
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