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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Aristophanes
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
Aristophanes

Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde

C.S. Lewis
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
C.S. Lewis

Elie Wiesel
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel

2281 Magic Realism — 1032 members — last activity Jul 04, 2025 11:47AM
Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more
1786 Latin American Literature and Magical Realism — 366 members — last activity Aug 29, 2017 05:48AM
Latin American literature rose to particular prominence during the second half of the 20th century, largely thanks to the international success of the ...more
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