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Robert’s Quotes

“Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.”
― Jim Harrison, Warlock

tags: death, food, humor

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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

tags: novel, politics

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“Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

tags: critic, criticism, film, movie, reviewers

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Robert’s Groups

The Year of Reading Proust — 1634 members — last activity Mar 29, 2025 09:41AM
2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more

Bildungsroman Reading Group — 8 members — last activity Dec 07, 2008 02:07PM
A bildungsroman is a "novel or formation" or, in less highfalutin terms, a coming of age novel. My goal for the group is to read four such books in su ...more

Language & Grammar — 2174 members — last activity May 05, 2026 11:41AM
This group is for word lovers and has topics both serious (grammatical questions and concerns) and not so serious (word play and word games of all sor ...more