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We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them.
“The strict competences of independence, the formal mastery, the complexities of attitude and know-how necessary to life on the farm, which have been in the making in the race of farmers since before history, all are replaced by the knowledge of some fragmentary task that may be learned by rote in a little while.”
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
― The Road
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
― The Road
“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“If only my heart were stone.”
― The Road
― The Road
“how normal it has become to feel as though you absolutely must do more than you can do.”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Taylor’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Taylor’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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