Robert Hellenga
Born
in The United States
August 05, 1941
Died
July 18, 2020
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The Sixteen Pleasures
7 editions
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1994
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The Fall of a Sparrow
11 editions
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1998
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Philosophy Made Simple
11 editions
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2006
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Snakewoman of Little Egypt
14 editions
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published
2010
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The Italian Lover
14 editions
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published
2007
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The Confessions of Frances Godwin
4 editions
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published
2014
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Blues Lessons
6 editions
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2001
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Love, Death & Rare Books
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The Truth About Death and Other Stories
3 editions
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2016
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A Christmas Letter
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2014
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“He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of actual enjoyment. Most people don't know what they like because they feel obligated to like so many different things. They feel they're supposed to be overwhelmed, so instead of looking, they spend their time thinking up something to say, something intelligent, or at least clever.”
― The Sixteen Pleasures
― The Sixteen Pleasures
“Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.”
― Philosophy Made Simple
― Philosophy Made Simple
“It took him half an hour to reach the little mission chapel. From his position on his back in the river he could see just the tip of the steeple, but for the most part he gazed upward at the constellations. Rudy knew his constellations, because each one of his daughters had done a science project on them and they'd spent hours lying on their backs in the middle of the Edgar Lee Masters campus looking up at the sky. As the river bent to the south, he could see Virgo and Centaurus coming into view. At first they reminded him of true beauty, and he was overwhelmed. He knew that this heart-piercing ache, however painful, was the central experience of his life and that he would have to come to terms with it. No one - not Aristotle, not Epicurus, not Siva Singh - would ever convince him otherwise. But then it occurred to him that Virgo and Centaurus were just as arbitrary as the rudimentary classification system he'd used for his books - Helen's books. There were a lot of stars left out of the constellations, and nothing to stop you from drawing the lines in different ways to create different pictures. He wanted to lift his wings and fly, but he didn't have the power. He could only let the river carry him along.”
― Philosophy Made Simple
― Philosophy Made Simple
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