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Tag der Befreiung: Stories

by George Saunders

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In Concert: Die 66 wichtigsten Live-Alben aller Zeiten und ihre Geschichte

by Manfred Prescher

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Das Science Fiction Jahr 2025

by Melanie Wylutzki

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“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

tags: books, films, imagination, lemmy-kilmister, movies, reading, vision

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“But what am I going to see?

I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.”
― Stanislaw Lem, Solaris

tags: introspection, lem, self-exploration, solaris

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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
― Albert Camus

tags: democracy, fascism

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“Lucy: You learn more when you lose
Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!”
― Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts Treasury

tags: failure, learning, wisdom

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“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

tags: history, literature, writing

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