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“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”
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“The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”
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“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
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“I cannot abide useless people.”
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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
The Contemplation Congregation
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— last activity Mar 11, 2008 07:08AM
A growing group of friends that once lived close, but who, although distant, stay close through this book club.
Irish Lit & Times
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— last activity Jan 26, 2026 06:47AM
Celtic peoples and lovers of the Irish alike, gather to sing our songs of joyous melancholia! Come discuss anything related to any Irish author, and f ...more
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— last activity Nov 01, 2025 06:22AM
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Unconventional Greats
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— last activity Sep 25, 2012 09:48AM
This is a group for those of us who love great writing but aren't enamored of "The Classics". You know - Steinbeck, Hemingway, Poe, Hawthorne, Orwell, ...more
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Urban fantasy is a subset of contemporary fantasy, consisting of magical novels and stories set in contemporary, real-world, urban settings--as oppose ...more
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