Rosie’s Book Club

Quotes and ramblings of the books I enjoy. Run by @sphoricus

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I’m Rosie/Marlowe, and I really like to read. Consider following me/liking/rebloging this post if you also like books (I will probably follow you back).

I will mostly be posting quotes from whatever I’m reading, but I may also rant about literature from time to time.

Some of my favorite works are:

Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey)

Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Edward Abbey)

Dune (Frank Herbert)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (JRR Tolkien)

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Roger Williams)

Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)

The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

Current Reads: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami)

Goodreads

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When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up. Do you understand?

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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If you break little promises you'll break big ones.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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Sorry for the lack of quotes, I finished Zorba the Greek and college hit HARD. I have to read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road here soon so hopefully I’ll start posting with that again but god damn! They don’t lie when they say college takes away your reading time!!

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The voice of those cranes, echoing once again within me, was the terrible forewarning that this life is unique for each human being, that no other life exists, that we may enjoy it, enjoy it here, that it passes quickly, and that no other opportunity will be given us in the whole of eternity.

Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek Translation by Peter Bien

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Every person has his or her folly, but the greatest folly, I believe, is not to have a folly.

Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

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Each person’s life is a rail line going up and down. Sensible people travel it using the brakes. But I—and this is where I excel, Boss—I chucked the brakes a long time ago because I’m not afraid of pileups.

Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

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Looking at Zorba in the moonlight, I admired the gallant simplicity with which he and the world intermeshed, how body and soul were united in him, how all things—women, bread, intelligence, sleep—became happily coupled at once with his flesh, turning them into Zorba. I had never seen such a friendly connection between a human being and the universe.

Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek