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“America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“How then can we tell what is true, sir?’ Felsted demanded as he poured the tea. ‘By thinking,’ Wilde said. ‘And by challenging the books you read. By getting dusty in archives. By listening to the evidence of archaeologists and palaeontologists. By using your eyes and ears and brains. And most of all by doubting everything I tell you until you have proved it for yourself.”
― Corpus
― Corpus
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“History is meaningless unless you discern how the past shapes the present.”
― Corpus
― Corpus
The BookBum Club {HIATUS}
— 244 members
— last activity Jan 16, 2019 01:01AM
We all need a way to tackle our many unread books but also still want the freedom to pick a book we're in the mood for... That's why I've created The ...more
The Classics Club
— 241 members
— last activity Jul 02, 2023 12:46PM
This group is made up of members of the Classics Book Club. Members who happen to be part of Goodreads can meet here to share links, post reviews, etc ...more
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