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Joseph Piercy

Life Lessons from Literature

  • bootumlumtalahas quoted10 months ago
    curse.
    ‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’
  • Ma.Jhonileen P. Javillonarhas quotedlast year
    Watership Down (1972)
  • darya vinocurhas quotedlast year
    People and Society, but this is naturally because novels are inhabited by characters with human personalities
  • nur athirahhas quoted6 months ago
    I have been trying to remember what was the first book I ever read. By first book, I mean first proper book, first ‘grown up’ book, the first novel of over two hundred pages
  • Валентинhas quoted6 months ago
    ‘I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.’
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted7 months ago
    The list is largely arbitrary – as all lists of this type are – and makes no pretence to be in any way authoritative and set in stone
  • Onopfheahas quoted10 months ago
    Watership Down (1972)
  • Lizbeth Sinaíhas quotedlast year
    Books teach us lessons about life, the world around us and the people that inhabit it, and those lessons enrich our understanding of ourselves and others.
  • Aila Kimhas quoted20 days ago
    Fulfilment in life comes from finding love that is rooted in moral and spiritual certitude.
  • Dijanahas quoted20 days ago
    The inability to distinguish romanticized fantasy from the reality of everyday life can lead to tragedy and ruin.
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