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The Country of Marriage

by Wendell Berry

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Purity

by Jonathan Franzen

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History of the Rain

by Niall Williams (카지노싸이트 Author)

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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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Banned Books Club — 164 members — last activity Dec 19, 2014 03:29AM
To read and discuss historically or recently banned books, and champion free speech, and current events as well as artistic expressions of freedom.

Beatdom — 553 members — last activity Mar 16, 2025 05:45PM
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On the Southern Literary Trail — 2135 members — last activity 23 hours, 16 min ago
Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more

The Aspiring Polymath's Society — 613 members — last activity Sep 04, 2021 11:15PM
For readers who love to learn for learning's sake, this group features regular group reads of nonfiction from a variety of fields, or fictional reads ...more

Adventure Reading — 163 members — last activity Oct 18, 2018 07:42PM
Discuss books on mountain climbing, sailing, diving, surfing, skiing, shipwrecks, survival, rescue, exploration, etc. For armchair (and actual) adren ...more

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