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	06/03 Vance is currently reading: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover) by Oliver W. Sacks bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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June 30
	Vance gave to: Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division (Paperback) by Deborah Curtis	my rating:
	read in April, 2002 Vance said: "For all those who love Joy Division, it's a shame to discover that Ian Curtis was simply a horrible person who -- unlike so many people in the world of popular music -- had a specific world view that he was able to express intensely and memorably ove...more " add a comment
June 26
	Vance gave to: The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine (Hardcover) by Benjamin Wallace	my rating:
	read in June, 2008 Vance said: "Unlike a lot of popular non-fiction, this actually reads like a book rather than an extended magazine article. Almost anyone with a passing interest in wine will learn a goodly amount in regards the wine vintages and wine tastings and -- on a gossip ...more " add a comment
	Vance gave to: Giovanni's Room (Penguin Great Loves) by James Baldwin	my rating:
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June 03
	Vance gave to: Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit (Hardcover) by Jill Lloyd, Michael Peppiatt	my rating:
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	Vance gave to: Seeing Voices (Picador Books) by Oliver W. Sacks	my rating:
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	Vance is currently reading: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover) by Oliver W. Sacks bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	Vance gave to: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Paperback) by Oliver W. Sacks	my rating:
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	Vance gave to: Behind the state capitol, or, Cincinnati Pike: A collection of poetry (Paperback) by John Wieners	my rating:
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	Vance gave to: Cultural Affairs in Boston: Poetry and Prose 1956-1985 (Paperback) by John Wieners	my rating:
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	Vance gave to: The Hotel Wentley Poems (chapbook) by John Wieners	my rating:
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"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

273 people liked it

"There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics S.))

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

207 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

135 people liked it

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

110 people liked it