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Orbson’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Orbson’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Orbson Rice
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Exposing My Orbs: The Rise of a Liberal Satirist
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What am I currently working on?
I am currently working on multiple projects. First, I’m searching for representation for “The World Beneath”. This has been a challenging process (translation: This process sucks), but I’m building an amazing mind control device to assist me in my efforts. If that doesn’t work, I may try Girl Scout cookies. “The World Beneath” is a young adult, post-apocalyptic fantasy novel in which Alex, my prot
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“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing. Working with Andrew was the first time in my life I realized you need someone from the privileged world to come to you and say, “Okay, here’s what you need, and here’s how it works.” Talent alone would have gotten me nowhere without Andrew giving me the CD writer. People say, “Oh, that’s a handout.” No. I still have to work to profit by it.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I lay them at your feet. Tread lightly, for you tread on my dreams.”
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“The danger of growing old is growing comfortable and complacent at the same time. We should seek out the new and strange and applaud it and throw wild fecking parties whenever it walks into our lives. We should be building roads in and out of our own wee heads rather than erecting walls around them.”
― Scourged
― Scourged
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
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