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Monte Desai

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my-recommendations-books‎ (453)
my-favorite-horrors‎ (136)
my-favorite-thrillers‎ (127)
my-favorite-life-changing-books‎ (125)
my-favorite-mythology-books‎ (97)

my-favorite-sci-fi-books‎ (97)
my-favorite-fiction-books‎ (87)
100-books-to-read-before-dying‎ (75)
my-favorite-religious-books‎ (72)
my-favorite-classics‎ (50)
my-favorite-crime-fiction-books‎ (43)
my-favorite-adventure-books‎ (42)
my-favorite-scariest-books‎ (34)

my-favorite-historical-fictions‎ (25)
my-most-boring-books‎ (20)
the-great-american-read‎ (17)
my-favorite-creature-books‎ (16)
my-favorite-non-fiction-books‎ (10)
my-favorite-short-story-collection‎ (9)
my-favorite-western-books‎ (7)
my-favorite-graphic-books‎ (6)

my-favorite-history-books‎ (6)
my-favorite-romance-books‎ (6)
my-favorite-biographies‎ (3)
my-favorite-time-traveling-books‎ (3)
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“It was the worst--the bleakest, the most physically exhausting, the most emotionally enervating--writing experience I'd had...I felt, and feared, that the book was controlling me, somehow, as if I'd somehow become possessed by it.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

tags: writing, writing-process, writing-quotes

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“Only trivial annoyances still matter. “If Greece goes bankrupt the bingo prizes will probably get smaller,” was Mrs. Schouten’s analysis of the eurozone crisis.”
― Hendrik Groen, The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

13 likes

“I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
― Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree

tags: funny, humor, prick, rude-quote, schoolboy-quote, witty-comebacks

410 likes

“ڕەنگی مەرگ
دوا ڕەنگی ئەم ڕەنگدانە و
ڕەنگەکانی تەماشای من

..لە نادیارا ڕەنگێک چاوەڕێی من ئەکا
ڕەنگێ تێکەڵ لە ڕەنگی گڵ و
...سەراب و بیرچوونەوە و نەهێنیی خوا”
― Sherko Bekas, شێرکۆ بێکەس

7 likes