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Rallen’s Quotes

“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
― Julian Barnes

tags: books, reading

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“Invited to think of the futuristic, we will still come up with something like the music of Kraftwerk, even though this is now as antique as Glenn Miller’s big band jazz was when the German group began experimenting with synthesizers in the early 1970s.”
― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

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“I am beginning to ramble. It is evening. The sea is golden, speckled with white points of light, lapping with a sort of mechanical self-satisfaction under a pale green sky. How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life.
Still no letters.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

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“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
― Beryl Bainbridge

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“We could go so far as to say that it is the human condition to be grotesque, since the human animal is the one that does not fit in, the freak of nature who has no place in the natural order and is capable of re-combining nature's products into hideous new forms.”
― Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie

tags: grotesque, humanity, weird

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Rallen’s Groups

21st Century Literature — 3486 members — last activity Jan 02, 2026 09:58PM
For people interested in keeping up with the modern literary classics. We will be reading fiction and fine literature from 2000 to present, with the i ...more

Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) — 15776 members — last activity 2 hours, 13 min ago
The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more

ManBookering — 1775 members — last activity May 17, 2023 10:29AM
Join us as we read the backlist of Man Booker Prize winners and the nominees each year for the MBP!

Literary Award Winners Fiction Book Club — 1109 members — last activity 9 hours, 10 min ago
Literary Award Winners Fiction Book Club is dedicated to reading award winning adult fiction books published in English from the four major awards org ...more

The Pickwick Club — 386 members — last activity Apr 04, 2020 10:42AM
Welcome to the Pickwick Club! This group is dedicated to reading, discussing, critiquing, and devouring the works of Charles Dickens.

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