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Jlawrence’s Quotes

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: paradox

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

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“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: living, poetry, soul

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The Sword and Laser — 21686 members — last activity 23 minutes ago
Online discussion forum for the Sword and Laser podcast and monthly book club pick. Subscribe to the audio podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podca ...more

All things Fandom — 221 members — last activity Apr 20, 2020 07:22AM
Anything and everything about Fandom, I started this group just for Dragoncon, but now I'm opening it up to other cons. Which conventions are you goin ...more

Coursera: Fantasy and Science Fiction (Summer 2012) — 73 members — last activity Sep 05, 2021 12:34PM
Group for the students of Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World Summer 2012. This course is a free offering from Coursera and ...more

Reading the Classics — 4046 members — last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more

SciFi and Fantasy Book Club — 42089 members — last activity 2 hours, 59 min ago
Hi there! SFFBC is a welcoming place for readers to share their love of speculative fiction through group reads, buddy reads, challenges, ...more

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