Robbie Bruens

http://agildedplanet.blogspot.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/asteeming

Robbie’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1498)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (496)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
partially-read‎ (45)
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)
latin-american‎ (59)
european‎ (47)
wish-list‎ (42)
short-stories‎ (35)
memoir‎ (33)
public-domain-in-english‎ (32)
sci-fi‎ (32)
essays‎ (29)

historical-fiction‎ (25)
mystery‎ (25)
19th-century‎ (24)
meta‎ (23)
favorites‎ (20)
surreal‎ (20)
black-authors‎ (19)
classics‎ (19)
reportage‎ (19)
war‎ (18)
maudit‎ (16)
paranoid‎ (16)

philosophy‎ (16)
uk‎ (16)
criticism‎ (15)
germany‎ (15)
show-business‎ (15)
absurd‎ (14)
bildungsroman‎ (14)
economics‎ (14)
biography‎ (13)
california‎ (13)
los-angeles‎ (13)
crime‎ (12)

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Robbie’s Quotes

“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

1405 likes

“Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, A Personal Anthology

10 likes

“As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

53 likes

“[...]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

11491 likes

“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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