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“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
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“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”
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“It got dark and the rain-clouded lights of the stores were soaked up by the black street.”
― The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely
― The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely
“For it is a dreadful truth that the state of (as you say) ‘having to depend solely on God’ is what we all dread most.”
― The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963
― The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Kafka on the Shore
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Kafka on the Shore
Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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