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“Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.”
― V.
― V.
“I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate phatos, but they're flawed in ways that don't come across as faults. And while I'm on the subject, Tolstoy's characters' faults are so epic and out of scale, they're as static as backdrops.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“It’s because of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
One Book Per Week: 2013
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Daily reading, whether a newspaper, essay, or novel, provides intellectual sustenance and strengthens our critical thinking, debate, and reasoning ski ...more
When I grow up I want to be a WRITER!
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— last activity Aug 08, 2009 10:31PM
When you were little did you want to be a novelist? Forget the whole idea of wanting to become a teacher, a doctor, an actress.....you could care less ...more
Amazon Kindle
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For readers using the Amazon Kindle ebook device.
Short Story lovers
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For people who especially love short stories, and don't care who knows it! ...more
Dark Fiction
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Because we think that a great piece of dark fiction will blow your mind, we are a group for people who enjoy all forms of dark fiction. Lots of discus ...more
Clarissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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