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Paul is Currently Reading

Paul Spence is currently reading

The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis

by Darryl Cunningham (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, comics, graphic-novel, biography, history, philosophy, economics, politics

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Money

by Martin Amis

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The Phantom Major: The Story of David Stirling and the SAS Regiment

by Virginia Cowles

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Paul’s Quotes

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, Valis

tags: qotd

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“Love truth, but pardon error.”
― Voltaire

tags: truth

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“And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.”
― Marianne Williamson

tags: confidence

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“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

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