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So you’ll understand I get lonely sometimes. Depressed. If you live on a bleak weatherfucked rock in the Atlantic your days are mostly grey – and I mean that literally.
“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”
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“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
― Collected Poems
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
― Collected Poems
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
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Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction that Burns Candle at Both Ends
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For readers and authors interested in the very best other-worldly, transported to incredible stories that keep us up at night and constantly coming ba ...more
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