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“If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason”
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“I don't know why, I don't know why
I return to the scenes of these crimes
Where the hedgerows slowly wind
Through the ghosts of Beverly Drive
I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know what I expect to find”
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I return to the scenes of these crimes
Where the hedgerows slowly wind
Through the ghosts of Beverly Drive
I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't know what I expect to find”
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“a democratic nation can limp along even when its chief of state is widely understood to be a lazy, bumbling simpleton. Fallible leadership is the only kind of leadership any nation ever has. Since totalitarians cannot afford to admit this, their domains start and end in fantasy”
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“On listening to Gute Nacht Aus Schuberts Winterreise
Great music has much the same effect upon humans as cyanide, I managed to think: It paralyzes the respiratory system.”
― The Golden Tresses of the Dead
Great music has much the same effect upon humans as cyanide, I managed to think: It paralyzes the respiratory system.”
― The Golden Tresses of the Dead
American Gods: All Gaiman, All The Time
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What? No group for Neil Gaiman fan(atic)s? For Shame! Well, now there is--a group for all things Gaiman. If you're a fan of his novels, his graphic no ...more
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If you like space opera: an epic scale adventure through the galaxy with military battles, interplanetary politics, realistic interpersonal relationsh ...more
Lynchburg Reads
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The Lynchburg VA community reads discussion group.
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
What's the Name of That Book???
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