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Here are a few more candid shots of members of the club:
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"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out." - Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
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"Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning." - Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958) |
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"Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings." - Colette (1873 - 1954) |
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"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful." - Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) |
Rachelle teaches us about the pleasures
of bacon grease.
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"There is a space on everyone's bookshelves for books one has outgrown but cannot give away. They hold one's youth between their leaves, like flowers pressed on a half-forgotten summer's day." - Marion C. Garretty (1917 - ) |
Loading a Few Things into the Car. Fire Island Ferry 1998
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"Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." - Kathleen Norris (1880 - 1966) |
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"The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one." - Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774) |
At Watch Hill on Fire Island – 2004
Worker Bees in the Kitchen - Davis Park, Fiire Island – 2004
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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." - Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
"It is very difficult for a man who has fallen in love with Rosalind and Heloise, Emma and the Duchess of Malfi, to settle for someone merely alive. And where is a woman to find a Sir Lancelot?" - Dr. Maya V. Patel (b. 1943)
"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." - Desiderius Erasmus (1465 - 1536)
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves." - E.M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
"Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them." - Emile Zola (1840 - 1902)
"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love." - Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty." - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you." - Harold Bloom (1930 - )
"What wild desires, what restless torments
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