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The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)

by Jo Nesbø (Goodreads Author)

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King of Ashes

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Paris Blues

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Jack’s Quotes

“I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.”
― Robert E. Howard

tags: badass

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“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

tags: inspirational, motivational, originality

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“It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.”
― Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

tags: courage, originality

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“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: brilliance, determination, faith, first-impression, fool, foolish, genius, geniuses, glance, illusion, mistaken, mistaken-identity, misunderstood, originality, perseverance, risk, taking-risks, wheels

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“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: awkward, creative, creativity, disagreeable, envy, intimidating, intimidation, mediocre, mediocrity, misunderstood, odd, original, originality, outcast, peculiar, strange, unusual

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Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans — 633 members — last activity Nov 29, 2023 12:46PM
A group for fans of the great Pulp Magazines of the 20's through the 50's. Included but not restricted to Weird Tales, Black Mask, Astounding, Adventu ...more

Robert E. Howard Readers — 404 members — last activity Apr 06, 2026 11:22AM
Justly remembered for his thrilling stories about Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard wrote about many other characters and in genres other than Swo ...more

Edgar Rice Burrough Fans — 60 members — last activity Oct 15, 2022 10:45AM
This is THE group for those who grew up with Tarzan and John Carter of Mars and want to see these books still popular for our kids and grandkids

Men's Adventure — 28 members — last activity May 16, 2017 09:42AM
Discussion group for readers and authors of Men's Adventure fiction. This is the kind of stuff our Dads and Granddads loved to read: tales of real men ...more