“I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.”
― Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
― Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
“What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?”
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.”
― Rumble Fish
― Rumble Fish
“I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.”
― Fifth Business
― Fifth Business
“My greatest wish -- other than salvation -- was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
Should have read classics
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This is a group that is reading some of the classics that maybe we should have read but we got so turned off by "classics" we had to read in high scho ...more
100 books to read before you die
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The BBC has a list of 100 books that they think everyone should read before they die; however they predict that most people will only read 6! This gro ...more
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