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♪ I get by with a little help from my friends ♪ Reading is fundamental. ... there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. - Samwise Gamgee

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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“the public has lost faith in the people on whom it relied to make sense of the world—journalists, scientists, experts of every stripe. By the same process, the elites have lost faith in themselves.” ― Martin Gurri, The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Ah, young gentleman, you cannot appreciate, except in imagination, what it means, to one standing on the brink of eternity, to feel sure that he will live on in his children and his children’s children!” ― Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.” ― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List: A Novel #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just learning this fact,” Tyler said.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club: A Novel #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“I’m not sure, guy, but I don’t think dyslexia is a virus.” “Oh, who knows? They don’t know that. Prove it.” ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘There are three prerequisites for a good translation,’ Rieu believed: ‘I give them in order of importance. The translator must know his own language; he must fall in love with his work; and he must understand the language of the original.’ ― Henry Eliot, The Penguin Classics Book #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success ― is our national disease. ― William James, The Bitch-Goddess Success: Variations on an American Theme #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.” ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“the responsibility of affirming the truth of our human tradition and handing it on with a voice of authority, an unshaken voice. That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World #BookSky
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 27/09/2026
The secret to reading more classics? Don’t treat them like homework. by Kevin Dickinson bigthink.com/books/readin... Classics of Literature at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books... #books #literature
Title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Ornate gilt-decorated cover of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Features an elaborate peacock design with fanned tail feathers in gold on dark green cloth—a well-known "Peacock Edition" binding, published by George Allen (1894).
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Upon subjects which interested him, and when quite at ease, he possessed that flow of natural, and somewhat florid eloquence, which has been supposed as powerful as figure, fashion, fame, or fortune, in winning the female heart.” ― Walter Scott, Waverley #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Raising" children is primarily a matter of teaching them what games to play. Different cultures and different social classes favor different types of games, and various tribes and families favor different variations of these.” ― Eric Berne, Games People Play #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours” ― Eric Berne, Games People Play #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The school master does not work for the parent, but against the parent. Modern education means handing down the customs of the minority, and rooting out the customs of the majority.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.” ― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Amongst the inconveniences of authors in the present day, it is difficult for any who have a name, good or bad, to escape translation.” ― Lord Byron, The Prophecy of Dante (Preface) #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“What is that? Cedar? Starch? Lilies? Candle wax? Isn’t the phrase ‘the odor of sanctity’? I would not presume.” She said, “I’m pretty sure the odor of sanctity will come out in the wash,” and he laughed. ― Marilynne Robinson, Home #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” ― Sophocles, Antigone #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“unto whoso readeth to pass away the time, nothing can be overlong, so but it do that for which he useth it.” ― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“This book was written using 100% recycled words.” ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.” ― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.” ― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“I suddenly liked her enormously, and the more so the more pedantically teacherish she became.” ― Philip Roth, The Human Stain #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness” ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.” ― Philip Roth, The Human Stain #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“They took her to a psychiatrist. Faunia told the psychiatrist what happened, and after ten sessions the psychiatrist too sided with the stepfather. ‘Takes the side of those who pay him,’ Faunia says. ‘Just like everyone.’ ” ― Philip Roth, The Human Stain #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“the spectacle of a couple of wastrels in the Liberal Club annoyed and shamed him. His vague notion was that at such a moment of high crisis the two wastrels ought to have had the decency to refrain from wasting.” ― Arnold Bennett, Clayhanger #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Her problems lay in her perception. Talking with her only strengthened my conviction of the importance in this world of having a beautiful face." ― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography Of A Face #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Had I not found myself in this role of sick child, I would have made an equally good fascist or religious martyr." ― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography Of A Face #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us." ― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty: A Friendship #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“I counted up thick rolls of greasy dollar bills and recorded the amount on a piece of yellow legal paper I kept at the bottom of my money box. I was once again the ant, putting away every dime for the long cold winter ahead." ― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty: A Friendship #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Parents these days don’t read books themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren’t readers, however, they have no idea what to give their children.” ― Keigo Higashino, Malice #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“having talent and actually becoming a published author are two different things. Don’t even talk to me about becoming a bestselling author, because that certainly has nothing to do with talent.” ― Keigo Higashino, Malice: A Mystery #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“there are complexities of human life that cannot be boiled down to black and white.” ― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Guenever waited for Lancelot in the candle-light of her splendid bedroom, brushing her grey hair. She looked singularly lovely, not like a film star, but like a woman who had grown a soul.” ― T.H. White, The Candle in the Wind
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Balance was the sixth sense, which she won when she first learned to walk, and now she has the seventh one—knowledge of the world.” ― T. H. White, The Ill-Made Knight #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“It is the mother’s not the lover’s lust that rots the mind. It is that which condemns the tragic character to his walking death. It is Jocasta, not Juliet, who dwells in the inner chamber. It is Gertrude, not the silly Ophelia, who sends Hamlet to his madness.” ― T.H. White, The Candle in the Wind
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“The amorous care with which Tom drew a volume from the bookcase was enough in itself to enlighten Edwin completely. He saw that a book might be more than reading matter, might be a bibelot, a curious jewel, to satisfy the lust of the eye and of the hand.” ― Arnold Bennett, Clayhanger #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“If God is supposed to be merciful,” he retorted, “I don’t see why He shouldn’t allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there.” ― T.H. White, The Ill-Made Knight #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As for the Latin, it was talked at such a speed that the rafters rang with genitive plurals—and there was such a prelatical issuing of admonitions, exhortations and benedictions that it was a wonder the whole congregation did not go to heaven on the spot.” ― T. H. White, The Once and Future King
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Merlyn always said that sportsmanship was the curse of the world, and so it is. My scheme is going wrong. All these knights now are making a fetish of it. They are turning it into a competitive thing. Merlyn used to call it Games-Mania.” ― T. H. White, The Once and Future King #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“few people can hate so bitterly and so self-righteously as the members of a ruling caste which is being dispossessed.” ― T. H. White, The Once and Future King #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“That night, for the first time, Edwin could read “Notre Dame” with understanding and pleasure. He plunged with soft joy into the river of the gigantic and formidable narrative. He reflected that after all the sources of happiness were not exhausted.” ― Arnold Bennett, Clayhanger #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“She seemed to be the personification of gentleness—one of those feather-beds that some capricious men occasionally have the luck to marry. She was capable, with a touch of honest, simple stupidity.” ― Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“That is the only thing which the poor mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.” ― T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Just as a true patriotic Englishman cannot be too busy to run after a fox, so a Frenchman is always ready to forsake all in order to follow a woman whom he has never before set eyes on.” ― Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return.” ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As I wander freely in these groves, My heart the highest pleasure knows! How happy I am under the shady trees! How I love the silvery streams! Sweet and charming reverie, Dear and beloved solitude, May you always be my true delight! ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sylvie’s Walk #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Some or many of these burning questions have run their brief course and are no more. It’s all gone. The last to be generally discredited, except in the third world and the American universities, is Marxism.” ― Saul Bellow, It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future #BookSky
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2. Grandpa @pdubya62.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"No international art center draws the young to Paris. Arriving instead are terrorists.” ― Saul Bellow, It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future #BookSky
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