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Ipek Emekli

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Ipek’s Notes & Highlights

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

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Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

Circe

by Madeline Miller

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Ipek’s Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: god, humor, life

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: goals, success

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Turkish Reading Challenges — 3840 members — last activity Jul 23, 2026 04:55AM
Grubumuz, Türk Edebiyatı ile ilgili kitapları tartışabileceğimiz ve bilgilerimizi paylaşacağımız bir yer olarak kurulmuştur. Discussion for non-Turki ...more

Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club — 17385 members — last activity Jul 27, 2026 11:21AM
You just found the Official unofficial Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club. We will read the Goodreads Choice Awards winning books throughout the year b ...more

Alain de Botton — 184 members — last activity Oct 27, 2010 02:00PM
A chance to discuss the work of Alain de Botton, especially the latest title, A Week at the Airport. Dates, October 18-24