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“But it was almost over, after all, her life. It swelled behind her like a sardine fishing net, all sorts of useless seaweed and broken bits of shells and the tiny, shining fish—all those hundreds of students she had taught, the girls and boys in high school she had passed in the corridor when she was a high school girl herself (many—most—would be dead by now), the billion streaks of emotion she’d had as she’d looked at sunrises, sunsets, the different hands of waitresses who had placed before her cups of coffee— All of it gone, or about to go.”
― Olive, Again
― Olive, Again
“All Germans carry an image of Adolph Hitler inside them....Even ones like me, who hated Hitler and everything he stood for. This face with its tousled hair and postage-stamp mustache haunts us all now and forevermore and, like a quiet flame that can never be extinguished, burns itself into our souls. The Nazis used to talk of a thousand -year empire. But sometimes I think that because of what we did, the name of Germany and the Germans will live in infamy for a thousand years. That it will take the rest of the world a thousand years to forget. Certainly if I live to be a thousand years old, I'll never forget some of the things I saw. And some of the things I did.”
― A Quiet Flame
― A Quiet Flame
“Art is not subject to reason, it is intuitive. When you start creating what your powerful imagination tells you, when you surrender to your spiritual impulse and inspiration completely, without thinking beforehand about the end result of your creativity. It is then as if the emotional range of your sensitive mind has been crafted into the delicate spectrum of colors. A vision of black and white is now a marvel of mesmerizing stains.”
― It Has Magic
― It Has Magic
“Her son had married his mother, as all men—in some form or other—eventually do.”
― Olive, Again
― Olive, Again
“She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.”
― The Message to the Planet
― The Message to the Planet
THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP
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A chance to discuss books covering the Second World War, the battles, campaigns, leaders and weapons. Tantum librorum, tam brevi tempore (So many ...more
A chance to discuss books covering the Second World War, the battles, campaigns, leaders and weapons. Tantum librorum, tam brevi tempore (So many ...more
Eclectic Readers
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— last activity Oct 25, 2020 06:28AM
Eclectic Readers is a monthly book club and podcast started in June 2009 for readers who enjoy an eclectic variety of books - and talking about them n ...more
Eclectic Readers is a monthly book club and podcast started in June 2009 for readers who enjoy an eclectic variety of books - and talking about them n ...more
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A light, fun group of people who may not normally read classical books. So when you do, what do you think of them compared to more modern literature ...more
A light, fun group of people who may not normally read classical books. So when you do, what do you think of them compared to more modern literature ...more
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