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"All those young girls, in pastels, talking about the weather. I shall go jump off of a bridge, I swear I shall. Do you have bridges in Wiltshire? They chatter, they chatter worse than Dimity ever did. Oh, the chattering! The chattering, it haunts me." Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger

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Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. from Beloved by Toni Morrison

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One of my favourite books <3 - Valentina Quepasa - -

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“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”

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Just Kids by Patti Smith - Crepuscoilare - -

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“One of the tutors let it slip when we were talking about the difference between revelation, inspiration, creativity and madness. How can we know which is which?”

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Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil by James Runcie - Crepuscoilare - -

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"Who doesn't want an exploding wicker chicken?" Etiquette & Espionage, Gail Carriger

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"The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs. Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle." Etiquette & Espionage, Gail Carriger

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It's a trifling matter. - bentley - -

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I'm reading that now,too! Lots of good quotes - Christina Pikas from iPhone - -

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"You can't trust everything that ass Plato wrote," Sokrates said. - The Just City, by Jo Walton

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Read that line yesterday :) - Eivind from Android - -

This book is making me very happy. I enjoy a good feminist critique of Plato. - Katy_S - -

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"And he was too good a soldier to go around asking questions, trying to round out his knowledge. A soldier’s knowledge wasn’t supposed to be round."

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The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut - Eivind - -

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“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.” “Yes.” “It’s sort of what we have instead of God.”

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-The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway - Eivind - -

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"It was the age-old question: who suffers more, the gentleman in the badly tied cravat or those who must look upon him?" Blameless, Gail Carriger

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Love this group. <3 - Lilith criceto neolongobardo from iPad - -

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"The complement to a culture of celebrity has become therefore the unabashed theater of cruelty, the public spaces where we gaze upon the half-speed car wrecks of the lives of others in the throes of failure, Nascar for the politically challenged."

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"In one sense, this programming of everyday sadism explicitly aimed at the poor and distressed is so ubiquitous that one need hardly recite the titles: The Jerry Springer Show, Dr. Phil, The Apprentice, Shattered, Unbreakable, Big Brother, Hell’s Kitchen, Survivor, American Idol—it is hardly worth the minor effort that it takes to disparage it. A moment’s reflection reveals it is pervasive in American culture. Unremarkable people, desperate for some sort of acknowledgment and validation, yearning for some promise of escape from the stale and commonplace, offer themselves up on the altar of abject humiliation to an audience of millions; smarmy celebrities berate them to their face; and the spectacles proliferate because they are cheaper for the networks to program than either scripted fiction or news. In many instances, the audience is even encouraged to pay to “vote” for those to ostracize and banish—a clear simulacrum of the neoliberal marketplace." - Eivind from Android - -

Never Let A Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown by Philip Mirowski - Eivind from Android - -

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"...these days men expect their wives to be as dazzling as their mistresses." "That's shocking," said the Major. "How on earth will they tell them apart?" - Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

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And what about the wives who are other people's mistresses? - bentley - [ 1 ] -

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“Did you write him poetry?” “No, luckily, I did not.” “Well, then, less to recover from.” — Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger

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I've created a new "Lines from Books" room, for those that are interested. :)

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So happy to see this! I was toying with the idea of setting one up this weekend, but then forgot to look in on who was responsible for the old one. - Jennifer D. - -

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I wish I knew this was a thing earlier on FF! - marisssagerding from Android - -

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"You must be careful of those green sparkles of yours. You know Calypso's green eyes trapped Odysseus on her island for seven years? I could live in those eyes of yours." "I think we'd both find that uncomfortable." -- Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger

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“It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.” from After Dark by Haruki Murakami

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<3 Murakami - Jenny H from Android - -

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"The ambassador's wife was clearly a woman who enjoyed the sound of her own voice. She dropped flowery vocabulary about her like an incontinent hen might deposit eggs." Prudence, Gail Carriger

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"May I kindly remind you that I am all grown up and perfectly capable of making my own tea-related decisions." Prudence (The Custard Protocol,) Gail Carriger

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“Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.” ― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

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this is beautiful - chiaratiz - -

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“'There’s a boundary line: on one side are those who make books, on the other those who read them. I want to remain one of those who read them, so I take care always to remain on my side of the line. Otherwise, the unsullied pleasure of reading ends, or at least is transformed into something else, which is not what I want. This boundary line is tentative, it tends to get erased: the world of those who deal with books professionally is more and more crowded and tends to become one with the...

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world of readers. Of course, readers are also growing more numerous, but it would seem that those who use books to produce other books are increasing more than those who just like to read books and nothing else. I know that if I cross that boundary, even as an exception, by chance, I risk being mixed up in this advancing tide; that’s why I refuse to set foot inside a publishing house, even for a few minutes.'” - Jenny H - -

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(maybe you like to see how it sounds in Italian :-) ) (I fear you can't SEE how it SOUNDS: how should I say?) - chiaratiz - -

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The six attributes of the adventurer, from The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder.

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"Uncle Pio came of a good Castilian house, illegitimately. At the age of ten he ran away to Madrid from his father’s hacienda and was pursued without diligence. He lived ever after by his wits. He possessed the six attributes of the adventurer — a memory for names and faces, with the aptitude for altering his own; the gift of tongues; inexhaustible invention; secrecy; the talent for falling into conversation with strangers; and that freedom from conscience that springs from a contempt for the dozing rich he preyed upon.” - bentley - -

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