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If you listen, I’ll tell you a story. We can know and be known to each other, and then we’re not enemies anymore.
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
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“Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Only under extreme pressure can we change into that which it is in our most profound nature to become . . .
That is what people get wrong about transformation. We're not all shallow proteans, forever shifting shape. We're not science fiction. It's like when coal becomes diamond. It doesn't afterwards retain the possibility of change. Squeeze it as hard as you like, it won't turn into a rubber ball, or a Quattro Stagione pizza, or a self-portrait by Rembrandt. It's done.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
That is what people get wrong about transformation. We're not all shallow proteans, forever shifting shape. We're not science fiction. It's like when coal becomes diamond. It doesn't afterwards retain the possibility of change. Squeeze it as hard as you like, it won't turn into a rubber ball, or a Quattro Stagione pizza, or a self-portrait by Rembrandt. It's done.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
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
Phelan Family Book Club
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Jane had the great idea to start a family book club. I think Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ would be a useful tool for us.
The 1A Book Club
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It’s no secret that we at 1A love books. And we know you do, too. That’s why we’re launching the 1A Book Club. We want to hear your questions, thought ...more
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