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Julian Barnes

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

Fernando Pessoa

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Julian Barnes

“How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explodes? We'll have a play on the London stage within a year. A President is assissinated? You can have the book or the film or the filmed book or booked film. War? Send in the novelists. A series of gruesome murders? Listen for the tramp of the poets. We have to understand it, of course, this catastrophe; to understand it, we have to imagine it, so we need the imaginative arts. But we also need to justify it and forgive it, this catastrophe, however minimally. Why did it happen, this mad act of Nature, this crazed human moment? Well, at least it produced art. Perhaps, in the end, that's what catastrophe is for.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Martin Amis

“What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.”
― Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir

Dorothy Parker

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

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154805 On Paths Unknown — 455 members — last activity Nov 06, 2024 09:33AM
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114100 Foucault's Pendulum — 67 members — last activity Nov 13, 2021 03:31AM
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79311 Completists' Club — 515 members — last activity Sep 09, 2023 03:24PM
A group for those attempting to complete, or who have completed, the canons of their favourite writers. Share your canon-wide knowledge and opinion wi A group for those attempting to complete, or who have completed, the canons of their favourite writers. Share your canon-wide knowledge and opinion with the world! Offer detailed book-by-book analysis! Write withering two-line putdowns of all the duds! Direct readers to hidden delights within the oeuvres of the unknown and the esoteric! Revel in your unwavering obsessive loyalty to all the writers that give you hope for tomorrow, or even this afternoon. ...more

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The purpose of this group is to read one short story a week. There is a link to each story in the discussion's opening post. You can drop in and out a The purpose of this group is to read one short story a week. There is a link to each story in the discussion's opening post. You can drop in and out at any point. ...more

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