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"So far, I've found this novel more stimulating and rewarding than Marquez' "One Hundred Years of Solitude"." — 7 hours, 41 min ago
"So far, I've found this novel more stimulating and rewarding than Marquez' "One Hundred Years of Solitude"." — 7 hours, 41 min ago
“You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.”
― Come from the Heart Sheet Music
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.”
― Come from the Heart Sheet Music
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Player Piano
― Player Piano
“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
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“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
The Kindred Spirits
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Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives"
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Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"
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Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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