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currently-reading (9)
to-read (69)
nonfiction (171)
fiction (137)
wish-list (85)
bookclub (79)
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mystery (27)
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Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Paperback) by Cherie Priest bookshelves: currently-reading |
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A Nurse's Story (Paperback) by Tilda Shalof bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction |
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Assassin's Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, #3) by Robin Hobb bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction, genre-fiction |
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London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God (Paperback) by Jerry White bookshelves: history, nonfiction, to-read |
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Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Paperback) by Bill Bruford bookshelves: biography, music, nonfiction, wish-list |
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Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make a World (Ed Emberley Drawing Books) by Ed Emberley bookshelves: kidlit |
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Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals (Paperback) by Ed Emberley bookshelves: kidlit |
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Drummer Hoff (School & Library Binding) by Barbara Emberley bookshelves: kidlit |
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Kim added Making History to the book list Time Travel Fiction
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Kim made a comment on gabrielle's review of
Handling Sin
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"
My name used to be in the papers daily
As having dined somewhere,
Or traveled somewhere,
Or rented a house in Paris,
Where I entertained the nobility.
I was forever eating or traveling,
Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden.
Now I am here to do honor
To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang.
No one cares now where I dined,
Or lived, or whom I entertained,
Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden!
"
— Edgar Lee Masters
My name used to be in the papers daily
As having dined somewhere,
Or traveled somewhere,
Or rented a house in Paris,
Where I entertained the nobility.
I was forever eating or traveling,
Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden.
Now I am here to do honor
To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang.
No one cares now where I dined,
Or lived, or whom I entertained,
Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden!
"
— Edgar Lee Masters
tags:
poetry
1 person liked it
"The first words that are read by seekers of enlightenment in the secret, gong-banging, yeti-haunted valleys near the hub of the world, are when they look into The Life of Wen the Eternally Surprised.
The first question they ask is: 'Why was he eternally surprised?'
And they are told: 'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'
The first words read by the young Lu-Tze when he sought perplexity in the dark, teeming, rain-soaked city of Ankh-Morpork were: 'Rooms For Rent, Very Reasonable'. And he was glad of it. "
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)
The first question they ask is: 'Why was he eternally surprised?'
And they are told: 'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'
The first words read by the young Lu-Tze when he sought perplexity in the dark, teeming, rain-soaked city of Ankh-Morpork were: 'Rooms For Rent, Very Reasonable'. And he was glad of it. "
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)
"If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription, who has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer - even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American or Mexican-American family being rounded up by John Ashcroft without benefit of an attorney or due process, I know that that threatens my civil liberties. And I don't have to be a woman to be concerned that the Supreme Court is trying to take away a woman's right, because I know that my rights are next. It is that fundamental belief - I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper - that makes this country work."
— Barack Obama
— Barack Obama
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politician
50 people liked it
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