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Kavan’s Quotes

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”
― Alexander Trocchi

tags: words, writing

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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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“You’ve got to empathize, not sympathize. Take that loose thread. Start to pull. Let the whole thing unravel. Let’s start making something stronger. More beautiful.”
― Alan Graham, Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home

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“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

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“Scottish writer George MacDonald once said, “No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourself so.”
― Phil Callaway, With God on the Golf Course

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Kavan’s Groups

Retro Reads — 621 members — last activity 8 hours, 39 min ago
A buddy reading group for those interested in twentieth century books and authors. From 2023 our time period will be 1900-1980. Authors like M.M. Kaye ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 312135 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Supernatural Fiction of the 70s & 80s — 41 members — last activity Feb 06, 2018 10:19AM
This group is designed to foster discussion of supernatural horror and dark fantasy books and short stories that were written in the 1970s & 1980s. Th ...more

Madam, want to talk about author Mary Stewart? — 330 members — last activity Jan 13, 2026 10:36AM
This group is for readers to discover (or rediscover) Mary Stewart novels. Feel free to join in the discussions and start a new thread as well.

The Evolution of Science Fiction — 1857 members — last activity 6 hours, 5 min ago
We read Science Fiction from all ages, rotating group reads from Proto SF to the latest, & all authors from Abbott to Zelazny. ...more

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