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Alok Talekar

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Alok’s Quotes

“If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

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“In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquium, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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“And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.”
― Michael Moorcock, The Elric Saga Part I

tags: conviction, cymoril, destiny, elric-of-melnibone, eternal-champion, lies, yyrkoon

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“As best as the Count could determine, the Bolsheviks assembled whenever possible in whichever form for whatever reason. In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquiums, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world’s oldest problems in its newest nomenclature. If”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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BooktubeSFF Awards — 1689 members — last activity Jun 01, 2021 12:01PM
A group for discussing the BooktubeSFF Awards and associated readalongs. To learn more about the awards have a look at the website: http://booktubesff ...more

SFF Readalongs led by Kitty G — 359 members — last activity Mar 09, 2017 05:12PM
A group dedicated to the reading of SFF books :)

Monthly Recommendations — 1610 members — last activity May 16, 2020 07:09AM
In this group we will have a monthly theme for book recommendations to share on your BookTube channel or blog. It is pretty relaxed with when you can ...more

Fantasy Buddy Reads — 10358 members — last activity 6 hours, 3 min ago
For readers of fantasy who are looking to find a partner or small group to read and discuss with! We run several fun ongoing challenges and discussion ...more

Green Group — 2016 members — last activity Apr 30, 2026 04:11PM
The Green group is about living in a sustainable manner--how human activity affects the environment and how a changing climate/environment affects how ...more

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