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“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

tags: life

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“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: error, humility, wisdom

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“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

tags: innocence

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“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics

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“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: cheese, dip, dunce, food, history, writing

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Beatdom — 555 members — last activity Mar 16, 2025 05:45PM
Beatdom is the world's most popular Beat-themed literary journal. Now we have a Goodreads group, where you - the reader, contributor or passer-by - ca ...more

Alt-Lit — 44 members — last activity May 28, 2016 04:06AM
Lovers and writers of alternative literature, experimental literature, flash-fiction, weird forms. No poetry, no short stories, just worded, narrative ...more

Literary Fiction by People of Color — 13324 members — last activity 3 hours, 8 min ago
This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more

Underground Knowledge — A discussion group — 25295 members — last activity 15 hours, 24 min ago
This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring ...more

21st Century Literature — 3625 members — last activity 7 hours, 50 min ago
We read literary fiction from 2000 to present, with the intent of finding those literary gems of timeless and enduring quality. We're less focused o ...more

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