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12-01-2017, 09:11 PM | #3767 | |
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From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. The first speaker is Theodore "Laurie" Laurence, the second is Amy Curtis March.
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12-07-2017, 06:24 PM | #3768 |
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I'm crossposting, but I decided this needed a larger audience than the Kobo forum.
From the greatest of all Dr. Seuss books, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: "These things are fun, and fun is good." |
12-08-2017, 08:04 AM | #3769 |
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“'Are they really gods?'
'I never worry about theological questions' said Nightingale. 'They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen's peace - that makes them a police matter.'" ― Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot (The British title is Rivers of London, though, which I much prefer.) |
12-13-2017, 08:14 PM | #3770 |
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"I think there ought to be children's books. I think that the child will like grown-up books also, and I do not believe a child's book is really good unless grown-ups get something out of it." --Teddy Roosevelt in his autobiography
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12-18-2017, 02:20 AM | #3772 |
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Here's one that came up in my computer's fortunes today:
"It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead." |
12-18-2017, 05:17 PM | #3773 |
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"The real show starts when they've reached their destination and got out of the truck, because then they put on their hard-man walk, rolling and swaggering along with a cigarette stuck in the corner of their mouths as if it had been shot there by catapult, and before you know it there's an uproar like a cross between an old gangster movie and the antics of an Antipodean sailor on shore leave."
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12-20-2017, 06:07 AM | #3776 | |
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12-20-2017, 08:46 AM | #3777 | |
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12-20-2017, 02:52 PM | #3780 |
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