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Boris De Vries
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“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
― Platform
― Platform
“And I defy anyone to name three better rock riffs than “Iron Man,” “Supernaut” and “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.”
― Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond
― Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond
“It is better to die of drink then to die of thirst.”
― The Brotherhood of the Grape
― The Brotherhood of the Grape
“it was a crime to take anything too seriously, as oppressed as we felt by the adult and conventional world. All the most serious art is not only sad but hilarious. What other intelligent way to live is there but to laugh about it? The alternative, also respectable, is suicide. But how could you do that? Not only would it betray a woeful lack of humor, but it would keep you from finding out what was going to happen next.”
― I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
― I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
“I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living”
― Full of Life: A Definitive Biography of John Fante and His Los Angeles Muse
― Full of Life: A Definitive Biography of John Fante and His Los Angeles Muse
Boris’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller
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