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“What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.”
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“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”
― Canada
― Canada
“Like everyone he knew, he could discern the hollowness in people’s charm only when it was directed at someone other than himself.”
― Bark
― Bark
“That's an applicable life less, my boy,' he'd said. 'Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don't really get this. They think they must count more to other people than other people count to them. They can't believe the disregard could truly be mutual.”
― Cartwheel
― Cartwheel
“Jivan: You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find.
Nedra: I haven't been looking for it.
Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a long time to grow. It has roots very deep, and these roots stretch out a long way, farther than you know. You can't cut it, just like that.”
― Light Years
Nedra: I haven't been looking for it.
Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a long time to grow. It has roots very deep, and these roots stretch out a long way, farther than you know. You can't cut it, just like that.”
― Light Years
Take II Book Club
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— last activity Sep 25, 2011 12:11PM
A book club for recreational reading and gathering for good food to discuss such reading.
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