Kate

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Kate’s Bookshelves

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read‎ (1420)
did-not-finish‎ (13)
fantasy‎ (529)
young-adult‎ (328)
science-fiction‎ (293)
manga‎ (243)

romance‎ (239)
history‎ (196)
science‎ (148)
comics‎ (122)
horses‎ (90)
childrens‎ (78)
dogs‎ (70)
horror‎ (67)

psychology‎ (54)
animorphs‎ (43)
discworld‎ (41)
great-courses‎ (41)
philosophy‎ (41)
historical-fiction‎ (39)
favorites‎ (35)
veterinary‎ (30)

vorkosigan‎ (14)
economics‎ (11)
cats‎ (7)
birds‎ (5)
weird-little-freaks‎ (4)
plants‎ (1)

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Kate’s Quotes

“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

tags: actors, archetypes, humanity, humor, people, symbolism, theatre

311 likes

“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell

tags: writing

180 likes

“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

2046 likes

“I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

tags: authenticity, fraudulence, mortality

31 likes

“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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