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“From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don’t. And when they’re running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I’m generalising, of course.”
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
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“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”
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“There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.”
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“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.”
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“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.
Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?”
― The Cost of Living
Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?”
― The Cost of Living
Brooke’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Brooke’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
290 books
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35 friends
343 books
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18 friends
371 books
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96 friends
178 books
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39 friends
19 books
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5 friends
45 books
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7 friends
62 books
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4 friends
582 books
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46 friends
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