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“Surrender to the treasures of books instead of entering into pointless relationships with men, who neglect you anyway, or going on crazy diets because you’re not thin enough for one man and not stupid enough for the next.”
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“Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“I liked my scotch undiluted, like I liked my truth. Unfortunately, undiluted truth was as affordable as eighteen-year-old single malt scotch. What about those who have not learned the best of what was thought and said?”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“I like this job. I can’t right now think of a better purpose in life than to be a teacher. To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it. It isn’t playing the lute for Shakespeare, or the piano at Ciro’s, but it’s something as good. And goodness has its own kind of harmony.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“But in this notebook I would reconstruct the story I had begun, the story I kept beginning, until I had a story.”
― James
― James
Our Book Club
— 5 members
— last activity Aug 13, 2014 05:47PM
a good book club for wonderful ladies
Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Beth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,078 books
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120 friends
474 books
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300 friends
220 books
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153 friends
513 books
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38 friends
323 books
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45 friends
658 books
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129 friends
588 books
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71 friends
436 books
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3 friends
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