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My new book "A Bookish Compendium" published by Cyberwit (November 6, 2024) is now available for order from Amazon.com. Amazon.com: A Bookish Compendium: 9789363543669: Passas, Dimitris
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50 years ago today, All the President’s Men (1976) was released. Still arguably the greatest film about investigative journalism and political thrillers.
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“Evil is whatever distracts.” – Franz Kafka
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Trump: "If I hadn't bombed Iran, they would have had a nuclear weapon in 2 WEEKS!" Trump has said many stupid things. This may be the stupidest. Facts pulled out of his ass.
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“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.” ―John Steinbeck
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Just when you think it can’t get worse……it,does.
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Remembering Kurt Cobain, born today in 1967. As the frontman of Nirvana, Cobain became the voice of a generation and helped bring alternative rock into the mainstream. What are your thoughts on his legacy?
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“The test of a civilization is the way it cares for its helpless members.” — Pearl S. Buck
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“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.” —David Foster Wallace
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“Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.” —Gabriel García Márquez buff.ly/i2aYzGS
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“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.” — Samuel Beckett
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Lou Reed performing “There She Goes Again” Live on the 25th of September, 1984 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ
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We are all mortal until the first kiss or the second glass of wine. -- Eduardo Galeano
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On 27/04 from 7-8pm: An ONLINE evening with Scandinavian authors Anne-Mette Hancock (Denmark), Lina Bengtsdotter (Sweden) & Silje Ulstein (Norway) in conversation with Alex from @NordicWatchlist FREE tickets at ow.ly/KaCm50InIPI @FictionFromAfar @TapTheLine1 @Norwegianbooks
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. —Fernando Pessoa
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“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.” — Eric Hoffer
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“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” – Rollo May
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” — Anaïs Nin
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"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." ~ W. H. Auden
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