Jacob Howard

Jacob’s Bookshelves

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scifi-fantasy-horror‎ (522)
dahlberg‎ (159)
patkurp‎ (156)
decadence-etc‎ (121)
crime-mystery-etc‎ (114)
guy-davenport‎ (71)
firbankian‎ (47)
buried‎ (39)

dutch‎ (39)
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ashbery‎ (27)
hungarian‎ (21)
travel‎ (20)
jonathan-williams‎ (18)
o2cc‎ (18)
moore‎ (16)
japan‎ (14)
landmark‎ (14)
westlake‎ (14)
cyril-connolly‎ (13)

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purdy‎ (11)
menippean‎ (10)
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Jacob’s Quotes

“Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.”
― Marcel Schwob, The Book of Monelle

tags: life-and-death, living-in-the-moment

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“All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino

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“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

tags: crying, equilibrium, inspirational, tears

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