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Isabel Isabel said: " a mid-century treasure that I acquired as a library discard [US Navy Housing, Camp Yokohama]. Why, oh why, is there no room for this on a library shelf? We have to continue to make older works available for circulation and not allow libraries circula ...more "

 
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Ved Mehta
“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
Ved Mehta, All for Love

Joshua Slocum
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

Colette
“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
Colette

Noah Webster
“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
Noah Webster

Thomas Merton
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

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