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Alex’s Bookshelves

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2020-anima‎ (57)
2021-anathema‎ (55)
2019-sublime‎ (44)

2017-year-zero‎ (43)
2016-tome-tower‎ (35)
2023-diffusion‎ (33)
2024-the-mirror‎ (33)
2022-ascension‎ (31)
2014-reading-spree‎ (29)
2025-growing-pains‎ (27)

2015-word-wave‎ (26)
2018-low-tide‎ (24)
top-shelf‎ (14)
blathering-struldbrugs‎ (11)
wit-to-read‎ (9)
well-versed‎ (7)
nfing-around‎ (6)

oulipo‎ (6)
2026-in-pursuit-of-balance‎ (5)
arabic‎ (2)
talipot‎ (1)

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Alex’s Quotes

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life

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“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: imagination

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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

4374 likes

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

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