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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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Ask S.E. Hinton - Monday, June 17th! — 1020 members — last activity Mar 09, 2017 04:45PM
Join us on Monday, June 17th for a special discussion with author S.E. Hinton! S.E. Hinton will be discussing her books Tex, Rumble Fish, Som ...more

Write, Wrote, Written — 1532 members — last activity Jan 29, 2025 01:30PM
This group is no longer active! Go to Write, Wrote, Written II if you want to be active. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a ty ...more