Kris Kipling

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Kris’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (157)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (415)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
nobel-prize‎ (40)
poetry‎ (15)
short-stories‎ (13)
east-central-europe‎ (12)

japan‎ (12)
australia‎ (11)
west-europe‎ (10)
africa‎ (9)
russia‎ (9)
essay‎ (8)
china‎ (7)
memoir‎ (7)

mediterranean-europe‎ (5)
north-america‎ (5)
britain-ireland‎ (4)
travel‎ (4)
general-nonfiction‎ (2)
letters‎ (2)
philosophy‎ (2)
east-asia‎ (1)

india‎ (1)
middle-east‎ (1)
northern-europe‎ (1)
south-central-america‎ (1)
biography‎ (0)

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Kris’s Quotes

“Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

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“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into the tree trunk. After waiting for a long time, the poet discovers that he is the hare.”
― Gu Cheng

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“It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.”
― E. M. Cioran

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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: america

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“I've never seen a world
So festering with damnation. I have left
Rings of beer on every alehouse table
From the salt sea-coast across half a dozen counties,
But each time I thought I was on the way
To a faintly festive hiccup
The sight of the damned world sobered me up again.”
― Christopher Fry

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