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J. J. said: " October, 2024. We begin.
This is about the Rougon Macquart cycle, all of it, twenty novels-- but the Oxford World Classics paperback editions, not kindle or ebook. From what I could see, no hardback edition [Everyman, Modern, etc] published the entire
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Flannery O'Connor
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
Flannery O'Connor

Kingsley Amis
“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
Kingsley Amis

George W. Bush
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
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Georges Simenon
“The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.”
Georges Simenon, Three Bedrooms in Manhattan

James Joyce
“A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
James Joyce, Dubliners

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