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F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost

Friedrich Nietzsche
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Ray Bradbury
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury

Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain

140069 Retro Reads — 608 members — last activity 3 hours, 37 min ago
A buddy reading group for those interested in twentieth century books and authors. From 2023 our time period will be 1900-1980. Authors like M.M. Kaye ...more
220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 300801 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
144052 Supernatural Fiction of the 70s & 80s — 42 members — last activity Feb 06, 2018 10:19AM
This group is designed to foster discussion of supernatural horror and dark fantasy books and short stories that were written in the 1970s & 1980s. Th ...more
22027 Madam, want to talk about author Mary Stewart? — 331 members — last activity Nov 02, 2025 03:26PM
This group is for readers to discover (or rediscover) Mary Stewart novels. Feel free to join in the discussions and start a new thread as well.
109465 The Evolution of Science Fiction — 1825 members — last activity Nov 21, 2025 09:36AM
We read Science Fiction from all ages, rotating group reads from Proto SF to the latest, & all authors from Abbott to Zelazny. ...more
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