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“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
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“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
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“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
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“Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Player Piano
― Player Piano
The Kindred Spirits
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Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives"
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— last activity Oct 21, 2019 10:08AM
This group is designed to help readers share pleasure, pain, questions, answers, views, reviews and comments about "The Savage Detectives". ...more
Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"
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— last activity Oct 30, 2021 01:38PM
This group is designed to help readers share pleasure, pain, questions, answers, views, reviews and comments about "1Q84". ...more
Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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— last activity Sep 28, 2018 11:24PM
The blurb asks the questions about Humbert Humbert: "Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is ...more
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