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If you lie, she says, one day you’ll steal. I won’t steal. It’s hard to understand how one leads to the other, how stories could ever make us criminals.
“The planet is shaped by the sheer amazing force of human want, which has changed everything, the forests, the poles, the reservoirs, the glaciers, the rivers, the seas, the mountains, the coastlines, the skies, a planet contoured and landscaped by want.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“Why would you want to be with someone if they didn’t change your life?”
― Bonsai
― Bonsai
“Joy is the enhancement of happiness through knowledge. We as booksellers have more of an opportunity to spread that joy through the books we present and those we find meaningful.”
― Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale
― Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale
“And in time we come to see that not only are we on the sidelines of the universe but that it’s of a universe of sidelines, that there is no centre, just a giddy mass of waltzing things, and that perhaps the entirety of our understanding consists of an elaborate and ever-evolving knowledge of our own extraneousness, a bashing away of mankind’s ego by the instruments of scientific enquiry until it is, that ego, a shattered edifice that lets light through.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
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Jane had the great idea to start a family book club. I think Goodreads would be a useful tool for us.
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