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“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?”
― South and West: From a Notebook
― South and West: From a Notebook
“To be a white middle-class child in a small southern town must be on certain levels the most golden way for a child to live in the United States.”
― South and West: From a Notebook
― South and West: From a Notebook
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
New & Noteworthy book club
— 51 members
— last activity Apr 26, 2018 01:50PM
This is an off-shoot for the in-person New & Noteworthy book club. We do meet in person monthly every fourth Thursday at BookPeople in Austin, Texas. ...more
Shelby’s 2025 Year in Books
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