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Reading is fundamental.
... there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. - Samwise Gamgee
Reading is fundamental.
... there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. - Samwise Gamgee
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“When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.” ― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
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November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.” ― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
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“There is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers of consciousness toward a reality that seems less real than the dream-state that has been left behind. I was such a child.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris
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― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris
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November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“There is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers of consciousness toward a reality that seems less real than the dream-state that has been left behind. I was such a child.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris
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― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris
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“She is no more than thirty pounds; no more than three feet tall; her entire bag of belongings could fit in a single drawer; she rarely speaks unless spoken to; and her heart beats no louder than a bird’s. So how is it possible that she takes up so much space?!” ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“She is no more than thirty pounds; no more than three feet tall; her entire bag of belongings could fit in a single drawer; she rarely speaks unless spoken to; and her heart beats no louder than a bird’s. So how is it possible that she takes up so much space?!” ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
“Do you see these stones in this bare, scorching desert? Turn them into BREAD and mankind will run after you like sheep, grateful and obedient . . . .
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Do you see these stones in this bare, scorching desert? Turn them into BREAD and mankind will run after you like sheep, grateful and obedient . . . .
“Tell me, why did you shoot the fellow? Wasn’t he an aristocrat like yourself?” The Count showed an expression of mild shock. “I shot him because he was an aristocrat.”
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“Tell me, why did you shoot the fellow? Wasn’t he an aristocrat like yourself?” The Count showed an expression of mild shock. “I shot him because he was an aristocrat.”
“Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard.” ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
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October 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard.” ― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
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“We’ve been safe so long, and grown so rich, that we’ve forgotten what we owe it to. But there’s no excuse for those blockheads of statesmen, as they call themselves, who are paid to see things as they are.” ― Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
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October 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“We’ve been safe so long, and grown so rich, that we’ve forgotten what we owe it to. But there’s no excuse for those blockheads of statesmen, as they call themselves, who are paid to see things as they are.” ― Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
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“the ideal of equality is not the empirical dogma that all human groups are indistinguishable but a moral commitment to treat people as individuals and not prejudge or mistreat them based on their membership in a group.” ― Steven Pinker, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
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October 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“the ideal of equality is not the empirical dogma that all human groups are indistinguishable but a moral commitment to treat people as individuals and not prejudge or mistreat them based on their membership in a group.” ― Steven Pinker, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
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“An intimacy of strangers. That’s a phrase I’ve sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader.” ― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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October 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“An intimacy of strangers. That’s a phrase I’ve sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader.” ― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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“the repression of controversial ideas is no longer a hallmark of theocracies and dictatorships but increasingly a fixture of universities, the very institutions most committed to exploring ideas.” ― Steven Pinker, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
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October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“the repression of controversial ideas is no longer a hallmark of theocracies and dictatorships but increasingly a fixture of universities, the very institutions most committed to exploring ideas.” ― Steven Pinker, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
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“Not, of course, that Brotherhoods’ had the slightest objection to trade unions as such.
October 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
“Not, of course, that Brotherhoods’ had the slightest objection to trade unions as such.
“my bovine-faced students so enthralled by their smartphones, having no interest in anything but their smartphones, staring perpetually at the screens of their smartphones while I held forth about Virgil and Diderot” ― Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
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October 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“my bovine-faced students so enthralled by their smartphones, having no interest in anything but their smartphones, staring perpetually at the screens of their smartphones while I held forth about Virgil and Diderot” ― Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
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“for a moment I’m sated, the coffee smooth and bitter but not too smooth and not too bitter and I recall Napoleon who said I’d rather suffer with coffee than be senseless” ― Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
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October 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“for a moment I’m sated, the coffee smooth and bitter but not too smooth and not too bitter and I recall Napoleon who said I’d rather suffer with coffee than be senseless” ― Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
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“Our teenage years have to simultaneously be the brightest light and the darkest depths, because that's how we learn to figure out our horizons.” ― Fredrik Backman, My Friends
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October 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“Our teenage years have to simultaneously be the brightest light and the darkest depths, because that's how we learn to figure out our horizons.” ― Fredrik Backman, My Friends
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ― Mortimer J. Adler
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October 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ― Mortimer J. Adler
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those that sought it I could wish more
Be what they will, I heartily forgive ’em.
Yet let ’em look they glory not in mischief,
Nor build their evils on the graves of great men,
For then my guiltless blood must cry against ’em.
― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
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Be what they will, I heartily forgive ’em.
Yet let ’em look they glory not in mischief,
Nor build their evils on the graves of great men,
For then my guiltless blood must cry against ’em.
― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
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September 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
those that sought it I could wish more
Be what they will, I heartily forgive ’em.
Yet let ’em look they glory not in mischief,
Nor build their evils on the graves of great men,
For then my guiltless blood must cry against ’em.
― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
#BookSky
Be what they will, I heartily forgive ’em.
Yet let ’em look they glory not in mischief,
Nor build their evils on the graves of great men,
For then my guiltless blood must cry against ’em.
― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
#BookSky
“Supposing the Straight was utterly powerless, always and everywhere certain to be mocked, tortured, and finally killed by the Crooked, what then? Why not go down with the ship?” ― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
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September 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“Supposing the Straight was utterly powerless, always and everywhere certain to be mocked, tortured, and finally killed by the Crooked, what then? Why not go down with the ship?” ― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
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"the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.” ― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
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September 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.” ― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
#BookSky
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