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“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Cancer really was the devil's handshake.”
― Commonwealth
― Commonwealth
“I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“Sensing her hard separateness in their separate footsteps as they walked towards her home in the sleeping suburbs, he began to feel that by now there should be more between them than this sensual ease. Till now, for him, the luxury of this ease had been perfect. This uncomplicated pleasure seemed the very fullness of life, seemed all that life could yearn towards, and yet it could not go one forever. There comes a point in all living things when they must change or die, and maybe they had passed that point already without noticing, and that already he had lost her, when he was longing to draw closer.”
― Getting Through
― Getting Through
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― Conversations with William Styron
― Conversations with William Styron
Fiction in the Fan
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A neighborhood book group in Richmond, VA. We read mostly fiction.
Avid Bookshop
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Avid Bookshop is a community-focused independent bookstore in Athens, Georgia. We sell new & used books at 493 Prince Ave. and online at http://www.av ...more
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