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

tags: death, food, humor

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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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The Year of Reading Proust — 1638 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 — 2179 members — last activity 21 hours, 38 min ago
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