José Paredes

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José’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (286)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (356)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
classics‎ (113)
manga‎ (73)
comic-books‎ (57)
fantasy‎ (52)
horror‎ (51)
latinoamérica‎ (50)
nonfiction‎ (36)

short-stories‎ (34)
sci-fi‎ (33)
snort-out-loud-funny‎ (28)
poetry‎ (24)
all-you-need-is-love‎ (22)
plays‎ (22)
adventure‎ (18)
children‎ (18)
philosophy‎ (17)
where-has-this-been-all-my-life‎ (17)
made-in-venezuela‎ (13)

politics‎ (13)
the-book-was-better‎ (10)
big-brother-is-watching-you‎ (9)
slice-of-life‎ (9)
this-is-the-end‎ (8)
have-x-will-travel‎ (7)
music‎ (7)
ancient-greece‎ (5)
biography‎ (5)
long-ass-books‎ (5)
epistolary‎ (4)

religion‎ (4)
history‎ (3)
the-movie-was-better‎ (3)
meta‎ (2)
novela-picaresca‎ (2)
satire‎ (2)
dramatic-potato-chip-eating‎ (1)
economics‎ (1)
journalism‎ (1)

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José’s Quotes

“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music

990 likes

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22083 likes

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll

11693 likes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45237 likes

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101694 likes

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