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"Mamma mia, here we go again!
I'm hoping that this time around I'll be mature enough to pick up on the subtle (and not-so-subtle) critique of Southern culture which wiser people than I have told me are all over this novel. (Which is so very readable, btw.) They sailed over my head last time, you see." — Jun 27, 2024 02:40PM
"Mamma mia, here we go again!
I'm hoping that this time around I'll be mature enough to pick up on the subtle (and not-so-subtle) critique of Southern culture which wiser people than I have told me are all over this novel. (Which is so very readable, btw.) They sailed over my head last time, you see." — Jun 27, 2024 02:40PM
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"I promise I’m still reading this. I’m just waiting for a snow day or something to give me the motivation to take it down from the shelf again." — Dec 02, 2023 04:54PM
"I promise I’m still reading this. I’m just waiting for a snow day or something to give me the motivation to take it down from the shelf again." — Dec 02, 2023 04:54PM
A moment before he had been dying alone. Now he was living in the same world with a man; an inexhaustible ecstasy.
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“Why not stop awhile? Your record is pretty good; you might form younger pilots, and in time go back to your squadron."
"Yes, and people would say that, hoping for no more distinctions, I have given up fighting."
"What does it matter? Let people talk, and when you appear in better condition they will understand...you will admit that human strength has its limits."
"Yes," Georges interposed, "a limit which we must endeavor to leave behind. We have given nothing as long as we have not given everything.”
― George Guynemer, Knight of the Air
"Yes, and people would say that, hoping for no more distinctions, I have given up fighting."
"What does it matter? Let people talk, and when you appear in better condition they will understand...you will admit that human strength has its limits."
"Yes," Georges interposed, "a limit which we must endeavor to leave behind. We have given nothing as long as we have not given everything.”
― George Guynemer, Knight of the Air
“There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.”
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“There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
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