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Gary the Bookworm

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Gary ’s Quotes

“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: happiness, thinking, wisedom

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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: books, library

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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

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Read Between the Wines — 151 members — last activity Mar 19, 2020 07:06PM
A wine club for book lovers, or a book club for wine lovers? We can never remember which.

The Thomas Mann Group — 248 members — last activity Jan 17, 2026 05:34AM
Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read the works of Thomas Mann. Our next scheduled read is The Magic Mountain, taking plac ...more

Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace — 182 members — last activity Dec 22, 2019 08:18PM
This group read of DFW's Infinite Jest starts January 01, 2013 and finishes April 30, 2013. Please see this thread for the current reading schedule. ...more

Everything Booklikes & Leafmarks — 727 members — last activity Oct 08, 2020 03:13PM
Want to know about BookLikes? Want to know how those of us who are on BL find it? It's here. If you have a BL account, please post your name. If you h ...more

Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" — 33 members — last activity Mar 18, 2014 09:23PM
This small group is designed to help readers share questions, answers, views and reviews about "The Magic Mountain". ...more

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