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Russ Weeks
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The air was swollen with cottony drizzle that did not quite fall to the ground, and pressed my cheeks and eyelashes. The lights of Piccadilly shone garishly under the lowering clouds; the shouts of the tourists were loud against the grim
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“I can tell you that I am a man who is cognizant of his world, a man who has a family, who loves a family, who has been torn from his family, a man who can read and write, a man who will not let his story be self-related, but self-written.”
― James
― James
“I hated the world that wouldn’t let me apply justice without the certain retaliation of injustice.”
― James
― James
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“The man here tells us a truth that is awful - we baptise ourselves with names that are far from the only truth about ourselves.”
― In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
― In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World
“I was learning the craft of poetry, which really was an intensive version of what my mother had taught me all those years ago—the craft of writing as the art of thinking. Poetry aims for an economy of truth—loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
Russ’s 2025 Year in Books
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1,446 books
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554 books
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587 books
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326 books
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237 books
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