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“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“I believe all Americans need to start taking more responsibility for the kind of extreme rhetoric that is permeating our political culture; otherwise, quite frankly, as a country we’re screwed.”
― America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom
― America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
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“Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!"
"The what?" said Richard.
"The catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a ..."
"Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity."
"Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissed shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." ... "You see?" he said dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap ... ah, there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention. It is a door within a door, you see.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
"The what?" said Richard.
"The catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a ..."
"Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity."
"Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissed shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." ... "You see?" he said dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap ... ah, there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention. It is a door within a door, you see.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...”
― White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War
― White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War
CMLE Reading Challenge
— 10 members
— last activity Sep 21, 2018 10:04AM
We are library people, and we love books. For 2018, we want to join you in reading our way through a book-filled year! Read through our 25 reading p ...more
CMLE Book Group Podcast Reading Challenge
— 3 members
— last activity Apr 15, 2018 10:15AM
We are library people, and we love books. For 2018, we want to join you in reading our way through a book-filled year! We have a book group podcast, ...more
Friends of Kitten Academy Book Challenge
— 34 members
— last activity Mar 08, 2020 05:44PM
We are friends of the kitten foster internet group Kitten Academy! And we are big readers, and fans of books, so are setting up a challenge for KA-rel ...more
Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks
— 15 members
— last activity Mar 08, 2020 05:29PM
Minnesota is very fortunate to have all kinds of wonderful state parks! We encourage you to visit some -or all! - of these parks. They are jewels in ...more
CMLE Librarians Enjoying Books
— 15 members
— last activity Apr 13, 2018 10:46AM
This is the CMLE group for popular and fun reading of assorted books! We will read fun fiction books that can be recommended to students, patrons, fri ...more
Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
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