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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

by Tom Robbins

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James said: " Do you think sometimes people [readers] can put too much emphasis on novels. To the point of obsession. Base too much of their lives on them?

"It's wonderful that literature can have that kind of effect on people. On the other hand, it's a little sa ...more "

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""...that leer could peel the velvet off the walls of virtue."" — Jan 07, 2011 11:10PM

Jan 07, 2011 11:07PM · see review

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Of Snails and Skylarks

by Christy Brown

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James said: " The story of Christy Brown is an exceptional one.

I recommend seeing the film My Left Foot, in which Daniel Day Louis (one of my favorite actors, and one of the most menacing)plays Christy Brown.

The amazing thing about some of these poems, besides th ...more "

Mar 05, 2008 12:19AM · see review

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The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

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James said: " I just started this one, but I was unaware until recently that this is the book Freud himself acknowledged as his best.

He says something akin to: A man only comes upon ideas such as these once in a lifetime.

I'm pretty sure I read some excerpts in c ...more "

Feb 27, 2008 11:50PM · see review

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James’s Quotes

“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral

tags: human-nature, intelligence

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“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: chains, choices

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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

tags: education

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“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
― Charles Dickens (David Copperfield), David Copperfield

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