Personally, I eat chocolate obsessively every afternoon and every night. Whether this is down to the brainwashing I received watching Flake adverts, or a psychophysical addiction, or sexual repression due to a Northern European upbringing,
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“Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having." "I don't feel that, Lord Henry." "No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to believe them, until we had no choice and it was too late. p 8”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied all the pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked passebly like the honest pages of business. He's make it through a three-hundred-page novel every two or three days.”
― Then We Came to the End
― Then We Came to the End
Q&A with Laurie R. King
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This discussion group ran from September 4 to 11, 2012, to celebrate the publication of Laurie's new novel, Garment of Shadows. Feel free to browse th ...more
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