Cameron Mitchell

Cameron’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (481)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (913)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
audiobooks‎ (170)
history‎ (102)
what-is-to-be-done‎ (93)
fantasy‎ (85)
sci-fi‎ (83)

some-faves‎ (74)
philosophy-theory‎ (63)
political-and-current-events‎ (58)
littluns‎ (56)
biguns‎ (46)
biographies-memoirs‎ (45)
ebooks‎ (39)
school‎ (37)
canlit‎ (35)

very-short-introduction‎ (33)
old-middle-english-early-modern-lit‎ (32)
drama‎ (29)
poetry‎ (29)
litfic‎ (27)
stand-alone-sff‎ (22)
spare-shelf‎ (18)
comics-and-graphic-novels‎ (17)
north-american-indigenous‎ (17)

african-america‎ (16)
african-writing-postcolonial-lit‎ (16)
books-about-writing‎ (16)
lit-crit‎ (11)
self-help-ew‎ (6)
chess‎ (5)
pop-science‎ (3)

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Cameron’s Quotes

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout

3695 likes

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148956 likes

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

2649 likes

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

10145 likes

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll come in again.”
― Monty Python

tags: humor, monty-python

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