Patrick Goff

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Patrick’s Quotes

“It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea

tags: earthsea, fantasy, inspirational, magic

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“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

tags: confidence

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“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
― Zadie Smith , White Teeth

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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

tags: freedom, language

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“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.”
― Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist

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Never too Late to Read Classics — 12668 members — last activity 1 minute ago
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The Readers Review: Literature from 1714 to 1910 — 3803 members — last activity Aug 30, 2026 09:03AM
This is a group for discerning readers looking to discover, explore, and critically discuss some of the World’s literature, with a primary emphasis on ...more

Classics and the Western Canon — 4985 members — last activity 8 hours, 38 min ago
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more

The Book Was Better — 3921 members — last activity Aug 27, 2026 12:42PM
Join the discussion about your favorite books that have hit the big screen. If you would like to start a topic thread, please use the search bar to ...more

/leftypol/'s Books for the Bunker — 86 members — last activity Jun 20, 2017 09:20AM
We are a small group of leftist politically-minded and politically incorrect discontents learning theory in our bunker. It'll be /cozy/. ...more

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