Robbie Bruens

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read‎ (496)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
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to-look-or-be-looked‎ (7)
fiction‎ (271)
novel‎ (146)
non-fiction‎ (134)
translations‎ (112)
novella‎ (95)
lady-authors‎ (76)

politics‎ (64)
usa‎ (61)
contemporary‎ (60)
history‎ (60)
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european‎ (47)
wish-list‎ (42)
short-stories‎ (35)
memoir‎ (33)
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sci-fi‎ (32)
essays‎ (29)

historical-fiction‎ (25)
mystery‎ (25)
19th-century‎ (24)
meta‎ (23)
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black-authors‎ (19)
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war‎ (18)
maudit‎ (16)
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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

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“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

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“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain”
― Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth

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“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

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“I had no wish to take any determined route on that stroll; I attempted, rather, a maximum latitude of probabilities in order not to wear out expectation with an obligatory anticipation of a single one of them. I was able, within the imperfect limits of possibility, to walk, as they say, at random. I accepted, without any conscious prejudice but that of avoiding the wider avenues and streets, the most obscure invitations of chance.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, A Personal Anthology

tags: wandering

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