Jonathan

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Jonathan’s Quotes

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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“Language is a virus from outer space”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: language

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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

tags: books, reading

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: ambiguity, virtue

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Science Fiction Aficionados — 2572 members — last activity Mar 04, 2026 10:27AM
Welcome to Sci Fi Aficionados. We love all things science fiction, with an emphasis on the classics of the genre. Members are welcome to discuss all t ...more

J.G. Ballard — 206 members — last activity Dec 08, 2019 02:17PM
A group in honour of the late Jim Ballard, who pulled science fiction out of the adolescent male ghetto and gave us books full of beauty, excitement, ...more

Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" — 1123 members — last activity Mar 04, 2026 10:27AM
Readers, authors, illustrators, and editors aggregate here to discuss Sword & Sorcery books and related media (movies, comics, blogposts, etc.). ...more

Miévillians — 255 members — last activity Aug 14, 2024 01:24AM
Club Miéville à la Goodreads. This is a club for people interested in discussing anything regarding the writer China Miéville; - his work, both fictio ...more

The Malazan Fallen — 1613 members — last activity Dec 01, 2024 05:29PM
For those of us who have fallen for the Malazan series and need a place to read or re-read, discuss and dream. We did a massive reading of the Book o ...more

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