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“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Love is a tree with branches in forever with roots in eternity and a trunk nowhere at all.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
― The Collector
― The Collector
“There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.”
― The Collector
― The Collector
The Raven's Nest Book Club
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A bookclub that meets at The Raven's Nest in Bahrain on Monday evenings to discuss the allotted book over a cup of coffee. ...more
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