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“One of the odd things about Stendhal is that though he was always on the watch lest anyone made a fool of him, he was constantly making a fool of himself.”
― Ten Novels and Their Authors
― Ten Novels and Their Authors
“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
― The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
― The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process
“Culture is not something you put on like a ready-made suit of clothes, but a nourishment you absorb to build up your personality, just as food builds up the body of a growing boy; it is not an ornament to decorate a phrase, still less to show off your knowledge, but a means, painfully acquired, to enrich the soul.”
― Ten Novels and Their Authors
― Ten Novels and Their Authors
“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
― As a Man Thinketh
― As a Man Thinketh
“The dandy cleans his monocle every day, a silver monocle with a lens of smoked gold, given him by a beautiful lady but, suddenly overcome with sadness, he has lost the monocle case.”
― Les Trois Valses Distinguées Du Précieux Dégoûté by Erik Satie for Solo Piano
― Les Trois Valses Distinguées Du Précieux Dégoûté by Erik Satie for Solo Piano
Central Jersey Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club
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This is the Goodreads page for the Meetup group of the same name. We meet in person once a month to discuss a chosen title, as well as the occasional ...more
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