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Alan’s Quotes

“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.”
― Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight

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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“What a shame that those moments when man is noble and pure and akin to the angels are so transient, so fleeting, while that complicated nonentity the Ego is always with us - of which one can speak only in terms of protective tenderness and gentle irony.”
― Antal Szerb

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“A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

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Underworld by Don DeLillo Readalong #ReadingBigBooks — 12 members — last activity Mar 01, 2016 11:15AM
Starting off on 1st of February 2016. "Underworld is a novel published in 1997 by Don DeLillo. It was nominated for the National Book Award, was a b ...more

Readers Inc. - Monthly Book Club! — 473 members — last activity Feb 25, 2017 06:36PM
A monthly book club where we read classic (old or newish) books and discuss them!