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“Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.”
― Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
― Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
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“The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.”
― Living Reed: A Novel of Korea
― Living Reed: A Novel of Korea
“There was a rift in American life that was now coursing through American government. It wasn’t between Democrats and Republicans. It was between the people who were in it for the mission, and the people who were in it for the money.”
― The Fifth Risk
― The Fifth Risk
“In college, there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures–solitude, books and imagination–outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.”
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This is a group where we meet online to discuss books from the 101 books to read before you die list. We read one book from the list per month. To com ...more
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Dear NYC Members, Seeing that OSS is a global book club, this chapter of Our Shared Shelf will serve to bring together the members who reside in New ...more
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