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“When I start reading I'm somewhere completely different, I'm in the text, it's amazing, I have to admit I've been dreaming, dreaming in a land of great beauty, I've been in the very heart of truth. Ten times a day, every day, I wonder at having wandered so far, and then, alienated from myself, a stranger to myself, I go home, walking the streets silently and in deep meditation, passing trams and cars and pedestrians in a cloud of books, the books I found that day and am carrying home in my briefcase.”
― Too Loud a Solitude
― Too Loud a Solitude
“When Marco Polo came at last to Cathay, seven hundred years ago, did he not feel--and did his heart not falter as he realized--that this great and splendid capital of an empire had had its being all the years of his life and far longer, and that he had been ignorant of it? That it was in need of nothing from him, from Venice, from Europe? That it was full of wonders beyond his understanding? That his arrival was a matter of no importance whatever? We know that he felt these things, and so has many a traveler in foreign parts who did not know what he was going to find. There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“The best attributes of anyone or anything usually reside on the surface, which is where, in fact, all of us live out our lives. Everyone has an inner life, but it's best if we leave it alone. For as soon as you poke a hole through that paper window, most of what's inside simply won't stand up to scrutiny.”
― The Invisibility Cloak
― The Invisibility Cloak
“Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.”
― Too Loud a Solitude
― Too Loud a Solitude
“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Petit book club in SG
— 14 members
— last activity Feb 12, 2019 07:24PM
Online version of our book club. Here are the key rules for our bookclub: 1. We will fix the dates for our group meetings 6-8 months in advance, after ...more
The Buried Masterpieces!
— 28 members
— last activity Dec 17, 2009 10:10AM
Dust of time settled a bit too heavily on a book that, in your opinion, is one of the greatest novels ever written, but that no one knows about becaus ...more
Loosed in Translation
— 527 members
— last activity Feb 16, 2026 09:53AM
Are you interested in world literature, and works in translation? Come here for recommendations, resources, links, advice on who the best translator o ...more
Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine
— 173144 members
— last activity 2 hours, 54 min ago
Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more
Amnesty International BookClub
— 668 members
— last activity Sep 03, 2024 07:24AM
The Amnesty International Book Club combines awareness and action. Every month, a guest reader will recommend a book about the human experience they b ...more
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