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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

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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

tags: reading, words, writing

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“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: inspirational, intellectual-freedom, women, writing

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Tackling the Pulitzer Prize Winners! — 817 members — last activity Jan 02, 2026 12:53PM
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 — 4388 members — last activity Dec 09, 2025 10:45AM
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 — 71 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 — 22 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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