Alec Downie

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Alec’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1157)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (663)
rock-n-roll‎ (281)
2024-to-read-list‎ (279)
alec-recommends‎ (210)

biographies‎ (210)
bowie-book-club‎ (156)
scottish-books‎ (132)
tartan-noir‎ (101)
2020-reading-list‎ (92)
2021-to-read-list‎ (84)

bhm‎ (73)
2022-reading-list‎ (62)
2025-reading-list‎ (59)
patti-smith-s-fav-books‎ (49)
japanese-books‎ (40)
2023-reading-list‎ (32)

2026-reading-list‎ (14)
tom-waits-top-10‎ (10)
hunter-s-fav-books‎ (9)
toilet-shelf‎ (8)

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Alec’s Quotes

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

4374 likes

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: james-joyce, ulysses

2400 likes

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

16594 likes

“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."

[Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
― Germaine Greer, Daddy, We Hardly Knew You

tags: home, libraries

174 likes

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

3854 likes

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