Alec Downie

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Alec’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1159)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (664)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
rock-n-roll‎ (281)
2024-to-read-list‎ (279)

alec-recommends‎ (210)
biographies‎ (210)
bowie-book-club‎ (157)
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 (41)

2023-reading-list‎ (32)
2026-reading-list‎ (16)
tom-waits-top-10‎ (10)
hunter-s-fav-books‎ (9)
toilet-shelf‎ (8)

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Alec’s Quotes

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art

3114 likes

“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

4385 likes

“The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.”
― Fran Lebowitz

124 likes

“Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.”
― Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994

tags: cartoon, humor, satire, social-commentary

155 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

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