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Rob J Kennedy

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Born

in Sydney, Australia

Website

https://robjkennedy.bandcamp.com/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/kenrob2037

Genre

Nonfiction, Music, Philosophy

Influences

Patrick White, Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Simone de Beauvoir

Member Since

January 2011

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Arts writer and composer - that’s it.

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Good for Nothing: From Altruists to Psychopaths and Everyone in Between

by Abigail Marsh

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Existentialism: A Theory of Man

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The Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Life doesn’t happen to me because I don’t let it happen. I’m afraid it won’t happen the only way I want it to happen: my way.”
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