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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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“Nur die phantasielosen flüchten sich in die Realität.”
― Arno Schmidt

tags: fantasie

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“He didn’t just kill them. He owned them. He cleaned their bodies with lavender soap, dressed them in their own nightgowns, and arranged them so perfectly that coroners wrote ‘natural causes’ without a second thought.”
― Jack D. Ace, Death By The Salesman: A Tale Of True Crime

tags: true-crime-thriller

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