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“I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”
― Agamemnon
― Agamemnon
“Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”
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“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Reading for Fun: English Major Edition
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— last activity Oct 18, 2024 09:42AM
This is a group started by English Majors, for English majors! We will read one book monthly and will likely meet (via Zoom) to discuss. This is also ...more
Carissa’s 2024 Year in Books
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