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Alison’s Quotes

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

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“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

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“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
― Stephen Colbert

tags: christ, christian, christian-behavior, poor, religion, selfish

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Tackling the Pulitzer Prize Winners! — 821 members — last activity Sep 12, 2026 09:42PM
The Pulitzer Prize literature winners comprise a phenomenal collection of novels. Join us as we tackle the monumental task of reading all of the winne ...more

Classics Without All the Class — 4418 members — last activity Sep 23, 2026 02:53AM
You don’t have to be an English or Literature Major to enjoy great books! We want people to read for the fun of it and not worry about feeling they ne ...more

David McCullough Fans — 72 members — last activity Mar 23, 2017 06:15AM
For fans of David McCullough's books and history. ...more

Man Booker Prize Winners — 95 members — last activity Jul 12, 2020 06:36PM
Attempt to read all books that have won the Man Booker Prize since its conception ...

Toni Morrison fan club — 23 members — last activity May 11, 2015 01:45PM
The group name says it all. I am forming this group to share our experience of Morrison's writings. I am also the organizer of a Meetup group and woul ...more

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