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J’s Quotes

“If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: susan-sontag

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“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

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“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

tags: books, change, civilization, create, destroy, power

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“Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

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J’s Groups

Johnnies — 92 members — last activity Jul 05, 2017 11:39AM
Open to anyone interested in reading and discussing the Great Books, this group was created especially for students, alumni and friends of St. John's ...more

The Corner Table — 5 members — last activity Jan 19, 2012 07:47PM
Either you know what this is or you don't need to know. ...more

Read a book from each country — 1006 members — last activity Mar 02, 2026 11:42PM
I thought this would be a good place to collect recommendations for books from various countries. I don't have a formal goal to read a book from each ...more

"Against the Day", Thomas Pynchon - 2015 / 2016 — 86 members — last activity Mar 20, 2019 12:26AM
I know 2 or 3 friends who are planning to read Pynchon's "Against the Day" come this December or January 2016. No schedule has been set yet and we don ...more