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J’s Quotes

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

tags: writing

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“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

tags: each, mind, politics, thinking

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“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: susan-sontag

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“When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.”
― William H. Gass

tags: books, difficult-books, reading-books

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“Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.”
― Gilles Deleuze

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"Against the Day", Thomas Pynchon - 2015 / 2016 — 86 members — last activity Mar 20, 2019 12:26AM
I know 2 or 3 friends who are planning to read Pynchon's "Against the Day" come this December or January 2016. No schedule has been set yet and we don ...more