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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

tags: indulgence, virtue

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“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

tags: family, food, thanksgiving

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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

tags: optimism, pessimism

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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

tags: life, reading

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Haruki Murakami's "1Q84" — 266 members — last activity Oct 30, 2021 01:38PM
This group is designed to help readers share pleasure, pain, questions, answers, views, reviews and comments about "1Q84". ...more

Haruki Murakami Book Group — 5956 members — last activity Aug 30, 2026 06:01PM
Discuss all things Haruki Murakami: novels, short stories, non-fiction, books about HM, translation projects, related music/film, interviews, symbolis ...more

10,000 for the COMPLETE Wind-Up Bird Chronicle — 5 members — last activity Oct 14, 2018 10:40PM
When Haruki Murakami's 1994-5 novel 'Nejimaki-dori Kuronikuru' was translated by Jay Rubin for English publication by Random House in 1997, it was mor ...more