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Jon’s Quotes

“The central problem of novel-writing is causality.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.”
― Paul Auster

tags: memory

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“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
― Jack Kerouac

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“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

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“The truth of the story lies in the details.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

tags: details, story, tension, truth

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Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives" — 131 members — last activity Oct 21, 2019 10:08AM
This group is designed to help readers share pleasure, pain, questions, answers, views, reviews and comments about "The Savage Detectives". ...more

Let's talk about Paul Auster — 136 members — last activity Mar 07, 2018 04:27PM
This group is for Austurites. Enough said.

Thomas Pynchon — 367 members — last activity Dec 22, 2025 05:33AM
This is a group for Thomas Pynchon readers, whether casual or fanatical. What's your favourite Pynchon book? What's your favourite Pynchon story? I've ...more

The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction — 198 members — last activity Jul 27, 2015 03:30AM
This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac. Even if you already know your Hunter S Thompson from your ...more

CORMAC MCCARTHY THE MASTER OF WORDS — 206 members — last activity Jun 19, 2023 04:35AM
A group dedicated to the enjoyment of great writing, not to analysis, not to eloquence, but to the joy of reading words well put on paper

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