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“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“You’re a literary person. If you ask me, there are passages in the Bible that a lover of literature has to appreciate, even if they have no interest in religious matters. The Book of Job, for example. A great mystery, and full of wonderful metaphors. None of this purple prose.”
― The Rabbit Back Literature Society
― The Rabbit Back Literature Society
“He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“Only during a period of war does it become obvious how millions of people can be manipulated. People, millions of people, are filled with pride while doing things which those same people actually consider stupid, evil, dangerous, painful, and criminal, and they strongly criticize these things—but continue doing them.”
― A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
― A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
“Wallace’s philosophy in The Pale King (TPK 546) is that we can ride out waves of boredom and oblivion into bliss and conscious (re)discovery, like another pioneer. With respect to Wallace’s fiction, as Don DeLillo said, “There is always another reader to regenerate these words” (DeLillo, Legacy 24).”
― Nature's Nightmare: Analyzing David Foster Wallace's Oblivion
― Nature's Nightmare: Analyzing David Foster Wallace's Oblivion
Unity Books
— 108 members
— last activity Jul 20, 2022 04:23PM
Increase your clarity of purpose, peace of mind, and spiritual awareness with three featured titles in the 2013 Summer of Self-Discovery series. Join ...more
SETX Book Club
— 26 members
— last activity Aug 12, 2014 08:06PM
The official Southeast Texas Book Club. We meet monthly to discuss what we read (classics and contemporary) and discuss the news of the literary world ...more
Divine Comedy + Decameron
— 268 members
— last activity Nov 07, 2020 01:07PM
This group is for those interested in reading either or both Dante's Divine Comedy or Boccaccio's Decameron in 2014. Each read will be non-concurrent ...more
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