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Breakfast at Midnight by Louis Armand

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Some people think paradise is not being able to feel anything at all. Anaesthesia. You die that way. An organism can’t exist without pain.

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Justin’s Quotes

“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
― Raymond Carver

tags: writing

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“I'm not interested to believe in something, but to understand the people who believe.”
― László Krasznahorkai

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“I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!”
― William Gaddis, J R

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“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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“I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which the pre-historic wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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The Tunnel Group Read - 2021 — 46 members — last activity Nov 09, 2021 05:06PM
This group read will be hosted by George Salis and Ryan Alexander, with the official reading beginning on November 1st. Aside from chatting via text ...more

The BURIED Book Club — 915 members — last activity Jun 19, 2025 02:16PM
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling — 77 members — last activity May 01, 2025 06:55PM
We shall provide a platform for a group reading of Marguerite Young's mammoth novel, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. There is no schedule. Read as you wil ...more

William T Vollmann Central — 274 members — last activity Jul 24, 2025 05:08AM
This corner of goodreads shall serve the needs of rainbow readers of Mr Vollmann's indulgent body of work. We welcome the veteran and the fresh flesh ...more

Corona/Samizdat — 88 members — last activity Oct 12, 2023 01:37PM
Born from the shambles of an unreliable and borderline criminal press, Rick Harsch decided to take his fate, or at least the fate of his books, into h ...more

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