“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches.
Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt.
He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds.
I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.”
― Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt.
He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds.
I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.”
― Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
I Wanna Read With Somebody (With Somebody Who Walks With Me) Book Club
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— last activity Jul 26, 2025 11:18PM
We meet on the first Sunday of every month to discuss our selected book while walking around Narrabeen Lake. Note to Join the Group you need to have ...more
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