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“If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.”
― Cluny Brown
― Cluny Brown
“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
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“Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.”
― Good Behaviour
― Good Behaviour
“True it is,/ That these are not the droids for which thou search'st.
-Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi”
― William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
-Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi”
― William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
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Persephone Books
— 1435 members
— last activity May 22, 2026 04:36PM
Persephone Books specializes in rediscovering 20th century novels, neglected women writers, twentieth century women writers and out of print books. Th ...more
Raising the Middlebrow Book Club (1910-60)
— 37 members
— last activity Oct 03, 2024 10:37AM
A bookclub that is member driven in its reading of the “middlebrow” genre and other undervalued women writers published in 1910-1960.
Victorians!
— 3800 members
— last activity 11 hours, 28 min ago
Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more
anthony trollope and angela thirkell
— 43 members
— last activity May 07, 2016 05:05AM
For those of us who are trying to decide which to read next: share your thoughts on which you liked, loved, couldn't finish ...more
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