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“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it.”
― Jonathan Carroll, Sleeping in Flame
― Jonathan Carroll, Sleeping in Flame
“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the promise which, in due course and in their own time, would be met.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?”
― Stephen King
― Stephen King
Book Gluttony (Select)
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Books purchased in moments of bookish abandon, starting with our annual fall vacation, 2011. There may be help for me out there. But I'm not interested.
Modern Library and Other Reading Lists (aka Crazytown) (Select)
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updated 02 jan. 07:32
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Lists taken from <a href="http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/">The Modern Library Top 100 Lists</a>, the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml">BBC Big Read (Top 100)</a>, and whatever else catches my fancy.
501 Must-Read Books (Select)
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List taken from Emma Beare's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1419462.501_Must_Read_Books">501 Must-Read Books</a>. Because I have too much time on my hands.
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