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Katariina Kottonen
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anichkov-book-club,
literary-fiction,
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oxford,
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progress:
(page 54 of 213)
""<...> Miss Kenton had departed, and sure enough, as I continued with my work, an occasional footstep or some other sound would serve to remind me she was still there outside the door. I decided therefore to occupy myself with some further tasks in the billiard room, assuming she would after a while see the ludicrousness of her position and leave." (1/2)" — Oct 26, 2026 10:53AM
""<...> Miss Kenton had departed, and sure enough, as I continued with my work, an occasional footstep or some other sound would serve to remind me she was still there outside the door. I decided therefore to occupy myself with some further tasks in the billiard room, assuming she would after a while see the ludicrousness of her position and leave." (1/2)" — Oct 26, 2026 10:53AM
Katariina Kottonen
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by John Fowles
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progress:
(page 0 of 288)
"‘This desperate silly trying to stay with us. They can’t be with us. We don’t want them to be with us. We don’t want them to wear our clothes-styles and use our language and have our interests. They imitate us so badly that we can’t respect them.’ (2/2)" — Sep 27, 2026 10:49AM
"‘This desperate silly trying to stay with us. They can’t be with us. We don’t want them to be with us. We don’t want them to wear our clothes-styles and use our language and have our interests. They imitate us so badly that we can’t respect them.’ (2/2)" — Sep 27, 2026 10:49AM
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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
― Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
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“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
Sofa Cinema
— 9 members
— last activity Jan 21, 2019 08:33AM
Some books become films – films that we watch at Sofa Cinema, every week come rain, shine, or Brexit. This group gives you an opportunity to proclaim ...more
Comic Book Club
— 4 members
— last activity Oct 09, 2016 03:03PM
A club for the discussion of comics, comic related TV and film and other geekery
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