“In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.”
― An Experiment in Criticism
― An Experiment in Criticism
“A book, a good chair, my pipe, and a good bed to go to when night falls, and I'm as happy as one can be in this very trying world.”
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
Mountain & Prairie Book Club
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— last activity Feb 22, 2023 12:03PM
Book club for the Mountain & Prairie community. A wide range of titles that explore the complex culture of the American West. https://www.mountainan ...more
The Inklings
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— last activity Jan 31, 2026 09:09AM
The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, between the 1930s and the 1960s. Its most re ...more
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