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Author of Timberline (https://timberlinethenovel.com) "I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point -- race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.' ~ Molly Ivins
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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December 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
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"Till we have spoken the unspoken, we have not come to the heart of the story,"
J.M. Coetzee, Foe.
J.M. Coetzee, Foe.
December 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"Till we have spoken the unspoken, we have not come to the heart of the story,"
J.M. Coetzee, Foe.
J.M. Coetzee, Foe.
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green reaches were converted acres at a clip into paper—toilet paper, banknote stock, newsprint—a medium or ground for shit, money, and the Word.-
Thomas Pynchon/ Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon/ Gravity's Rainbow
December 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
green reaches were converted acres at a clip into paper—toilet paper, banknote stock, newsprint—a medium or ground for shit, money, and the Word.-
Thomas Pynchon/ Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon/ Gravity's Rainbow
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Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
Robert A Heinlein
Robert A Heinlein
December 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
Robert A Heinlein
Robert A Heinlein
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From Peter Matthiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord
December 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
From Peter Matthiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
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William Shakespeare
The Tempest
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December 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
#booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
#booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers
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Post a book quote that you love.
#booksky
There is a quote I love, written by the poet; May Sarton, in; "Journal of a Solitude":
"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
- May Sarton
Has a lifetime of reading comics made me a hero?
Or merely a decent human being?
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There is a quote I love, written by the poet; May Sarton, in; "Journal of a Solitude":
"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
- May Sarton
Has a lifetime of reading comics made me a hero?
Or merely a decent human being?
December 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Post a book quote that you love.
#booksky
There is a quote I love, written by the poet; May Sarton, in; "Journal of a Solitude":
"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
- May Sarton
Has a lifetime of reading comics made me a hero?
Or merely a decent human being?
#booksky
There is a quote I love, written by the poet; May Sarton, in; "Journal of a Solitude":
"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
- May Sarton
Has a lifetime of reading comics made me a hero?
Or merely a decent human being?
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Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
December 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“Do not concern yourself with them; just look and pass.”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno
December 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“Do not concern yourself with them; just look and pass.”
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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“It will be generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.” -E.M. Forster, Howard’s End
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“It will be generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.” -E.M. Forster, Howard’s End
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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."
- Viktor Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning
- Viktor Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning
December 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."
- Viktor Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning
- Viktor Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning
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"it is not enough to succeed, others must fail." Gore Vidal
December 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"it is not enough to succeed, others must fail." Gore Vidal
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Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Hell is not for eternity. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. -Elie Weisel
December 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Hell is not for eternity. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. -Elie Weisel
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"There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art…"
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure that he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art…"
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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Sarah Kane - 4.48 Psychosis
December 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Sarah Kane - 4.48 Psychosis
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“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
December 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
– A timeless jab at foolish thinking.
- Mark Twain
– A timeless jab at foolish thinking.
- Mark Twain
December 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
– A timeless jab at foolish thinking.
- Mark Twain
– A timeless jab at foolish thinking.
- Mark Twain
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“Don’t forget, the real business of the War is buying and selling.”
Thomas Pynchon.
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon.
Gravity's Rainbow
December 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“Don’t forget, the real business of the War is buying and selling.”
Thomas Pynchon.
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon.
Gravity's Rainbow
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I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
December 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
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December 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM