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Isaac is Currently Reading

Isaac Blevins is currently reading

Written in Dead Wax (The Vinyl Detective

by Andrew Cartmel (Goodreads Author)

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Isaac’s Notes & Highlights

Circe by Madeline Miller

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in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.

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Isaac’s Quotes

“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
― Truman Capote

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“The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

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“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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“I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

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