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Aashay’s Quotes

“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

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“I’ve been smoking a lot
and starting to doubt
if I’m breathing you in
or smoking you out.”
― Keaton Henson

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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“I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: life, love

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Penny Dreadful Digital Book Club — 333 members — last activity Sep 10, 2017 01:08PM
Thank you for joining the official Penny Dreadful book club! In anticipation of the new SHOWTIME® Original Series Penny Dreadful, we will be re-readin ...more

Aleksandr Voinov's Group — 566 members — last activity Oct 06, 2022 10:51AM
This is a group to hang out with Aleksandr and talk about books and writing.

2SLGBTQIA+ Book Club Presented by Spectrum and Rad Riot Books — 41 members — last activity Nov 27, 2023 03:19PM
Join Rad Riot Books and Spectrum for a monthly book club highlighting works by queer and trans writers from around the world. We will meet on the last ...more

Literally Dead Book Club — 16531 members — last activity Jun 09, 2026 06:50PM
A mostly monthly book club (February-November) focused on thriller/mystery/horror hosted by BooksandLala and a rotating set of wonderful co-hosts! li ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22518 members — last activity Jun 20, 2026 06:44PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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