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Martin Amis
“What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.”
Martin Amis, Experience

Tony Millionaire
“Gadzooks! We've jumped out of the frying pan and into another frying pan!”
Tony Millionaire

Martin Amis
“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
Martin Amis, London Fields

Raymond Chandler
“It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.”
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

Quentin Crisp
“The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face”
Quentin Crisp

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3917 Minnesota Bibliophage Continuum — 43 members — last activity Mar 19, 2014 11:23PM
This is a group for current and former Minnesotans who prefer to gnaw, chew, and devour (maybe even regurgitate) books. "Minnesota Nice" is allowed, b ...more
13452 Art Squared Publishing — 17 members — last activity Apr 23, 2009 05:41PM
Art Squared Publishing is an art book publishing company centered around the idea that some art is for artists and non artists alike; pure, fun, and e ...more
25x33 Humor is My Genre — 170 members — last activity Feb 28, 2023 07:18AM
Novels that entertain, bring a smile or a laugh to the reader. They can be any genre, mystery, history, gothic, etc or any theme, but the books must h ...more
1350 Balconeers — 44 members — last activity May 30, 2010 03:44PM
Hey, there's a Balcony in the Goodreads library where we can all talk – movie books, books into movies, movies into books, books about going to the mo ...more
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