WilliamThornton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." - "The Catcher in the Rye," J.D. Salinger

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"What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul?" - Cormac McCarthy, "No Country For Old Men"

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“It is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.” -John Steinbeck, “The Moon is Down”

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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to corelate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

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“A truly happy life - is happiness day by day.” - Euripides, “The Bacchae”

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“I was at a party in Los Angeles and I was talking to somebody and it turned out he’d actually seen a film that I’d made. He went, ‘Wow, having seen that film, I didn’t expect you to be so interesting.’" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/books/review/the-silent-patient-alex-michaelides.html?smid=tw-share

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"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." - Giuseppe di Lampedusa, "The Leopard"

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"A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect." Haruki Murakami- Kafka on the Shore

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“The heart of man cannot long remain at any extreme.” - Victor Hugo, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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On this day in 1950, Eric Arthur Blair, who wrote under the name George Orwell, died from tuberculosis in London at the age of 46. Here's something I wrote a few years back about his novel "1984." http://brilliantdisguises.blogspot.com/2013/07/orwells-1984-kingdom-of-big-brother-is.html https://t.co/vRCEoftfJs