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"i'm putting this on hold till april because i know this book is going to destroy me (in the very best way, but i have THINGS TO DO this week that AREN'T sobbing.) thoughts so far: excruciatingly heartfelt, gorgeous prose; the most compulsively readable thing i've picked up this year." — Mar 22, 2023 03:53PM
"i'm putting this on hold till april because i know this book is going to destroy me (in the very best way, but i have THINGS TO DO this week that AREN'T sobbing.) thoughts so far: excruciatingly heartfelt, gorgeous prose; the most compulsively readable thing i've picked up this year." — Mar 22, 2023 03:53PM
“I want that quiet rapture agin. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick join the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Glass, Irony and God
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Glass, Irony and God
“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
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“Time passed again. I don't know how long. I had no watch. They don't make that kind of time in watches anyway.”
― Farewell, My Lovely
― Farewell, My Lovely
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
M. J.’s 2025 Year in Books
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