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This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar (Goodreads Author)

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A Third Kind of Madness

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“Critique by creating.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

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“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

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“The mirror is a pit / more caustic than lye.”
― Marge Piercy, The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing: Poems

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“Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.”
― Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf

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“[Alcohol] cures everything, except for stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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