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“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

tags: philosophy

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: originality

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

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Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans — 632 members — last activity Nov 29, 2023 12:46PM
A group for fans of the great Pulp Magazines of the 20's through the 50's. Included but not restricted to Weird Tales, Black Mask, Astounding, Adventu ...more

Robert E. Howard Readers — 404 members — last activity Apr 06, 2026 11:22AM
Justly remembered for his thrilling stories about Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard wrote about many other characters and in genres other than Swo ...more

Edgar Rice Burrough Fans — 60 members — last activity Oct 15, 2022 10:45AM
This is THE group for those who grew up with Tarzan and John Carter of Mars and want to see these books still popular for our kids and grandkids

Men's Adventure — 28 members — last activity May 16, 2017 09:42AM
Discussion group for readers and authors of Men's Adventure fiction. This is the kind of stuff our Dads and Granddads loved to read: tales of real men ...more