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“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
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“Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.”
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“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
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“All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.”
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“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
Bright Young Things
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...the perfect place for you to discuss your favourite authors from the early 20th Century. In the years from 1900 to 1945 the world of literature w ...more
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Reading every Kurt Vonnegut novel and short story collection....in the order is was written!
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Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own li ...more
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