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Maureen

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Maureen is Currently Reading

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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

by Octavia E. Butler

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2014, break-on-through, end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, mythology, novels, philosophy, post-apocalyptic, somebody-awesome-gave-this-to-me, speculative, borrowed, review-queue

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Oct 08, 2014 09:44PM

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The High Place (Ballantine Adult Fantasy)

by James Branch Cabell

bookshelves: 2013, somebody-awesome-gave-this-to-me, currently-reading, review-queue

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""...there is nothing in life which possession does not discover to be inadequate: we are cursed with a tyrannous need for what life does not afford; and we strive for various prizes, saying,'Happiness is there,' when in point of fact it is nowhere." — Sep 08, 2013 09:51AM

Oct 08, 2014 09:44PM

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The Man Who Walked through Walls (Pushkin Collection)

by Marcel Aymé

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Maureen’s Quotes

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines

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“Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.”
― Sir Thomas Browne

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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