Isa
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Post by Isa on Jul 27, 2007 19:11:48 GMT -5
"We wanted to join them but they took only Paul, who was two years old and unfit to be left in out company"
- Dress your family in corduroy and denim by David Sedaris
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
ancora imparo
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Jul 27, 2007 19:25:31 GMT -5
"Very bad manners; I didn't mean all the cloak-and-dagger stuff."
-The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
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Brunella
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by Brunella on Jul 27, 2007 19:44:17 GMT -5
"What intrigued me was the care with which my parents hid certain conversations from me: when they heard me come near they lowered their voices or became silent." Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter- Simone De Beauvoir.
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Post by Carma on Jul 28, 2007 12:17:27 GMT -5
besotted Cassell's spelling dictionary
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Jul 30, 2007 13:10:30 GMT -5
" 'He's already courting an alderman's daughter.' " ~In Lucia's Eyes by Arthur Japin
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Michelle
First novel published
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Post by Michelle on Jul 30, 2007 16:39:03 GMT -5
"I undertaked to input the things you counseled me to, and I fatigued the thesaurus you presented me, as you counseled me to, when my words appeared too petite, or not befitting."
Everything is Illuminated (the English is supposed to be rough - the speaker is Ukranian.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Jul 30, 2007 19:37:18 GMT -5
"And I could only stand by, helpless and mute, the cause of it all."
- A Great and Terrible Beauty
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bookjunky
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by bookjunky on Jul 31, 2007 13:32:09 GMT -5
"Honey-filled breasts. The fire pooled and siphoned color, the color of"
-The Book of Flying by Keith Miller
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Post by Dominique on Aug 1, 2007 6:31:26 GMT -5
"The defendant argued that it is an essential part of the cause of action that the statement was material; and that a material statement must be such that it would be likely to induce an ordinary reasonable man (as distinguished from the particular plaintiff) to enter into the contract." Nicholas and Anor v Thompson from Australian Cases on Contract. As you can see I spent today catching up on my law reading
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
ancora imparo
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Aug 1, 2007 7:08:00 GMT -5
"John Smith - Weeds & Seeds."
From "Lost in a Good Book" by Jasper Fforde
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taylor
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by taylor on Aug 1, 2007 10:32:14 GMT -5
"On the contrary, Marie Teresa saw "Mimi" or "la Marie" as her second surviving daughter was known, as the consolation that was owed to her by life."
From- Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
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bookworm
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Everything you can imagine is real" - Pablo Picasso
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Post by bookworm on Aug 1, 2007 12:02:07 GMT -5
It's in Greek so I'm translating: "Now the problem gets more complicated; obviously the derivative will now depend on the direction we are moving to." - Introduction to electrodynamics, by David J. Griffiths Sadly, I spent the day studying...
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Michelle
First novel published
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Post by Michelle on Aug 1, 2007 12:50:26 GMT -5
"The defendant argued that it is an essential part of the cause of action that the statement was material; and that a material statement must be such that it would be likely to induce an ordinary reasonable man (as distinguished from the particular plaintiff) to enter into the contract." Nicholas and Anor v Thompson from Australian Cases on Contract. As you can see I spent today catching up on my law reading I think it's sad that I easily understood that sentence. If only I didn't go to law school and did not retain information like that. I still have a month before I'm reading that stuff again though, so I guess it's alright.
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Bina
First novel published
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Post by Bina on Aug 2, 2007 4:35:35 GMT -5
I´m so glad I´m not studying law, I´d never pass the exams!
"She made it sound important."
- the fortress of solitude by Jonathan lethem
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Post by Dominique on Aug 2, 2007 7:02:51 GMT -5
Lol I know what you mean. The thing that bugs me most about studying law is reading the judgements you see that the judges really need some kind of lesson on writing. Seriously sentances 50 or 60 words long is just ridiculous! Add a full stop in every now and then guys!
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