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Brian is Currently Reading

Brian is currently reading

Tipping the Velvet

by Sarah Waters

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Oct 12, 2025 08:48AM

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Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)

by Armistead Maupin

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Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

bookshelves: currently-reading, audiobook, memoir, biography, humor, essays

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Brian’s Quotes

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause or a prop for a cause. Or something to pacify and make thousands go to bed happy and unthinking. It was meant to be a challenge, yes, but that challenge to a second life was meant to be laced with kindness. If someone forces you to choose between God is holy and God is love choose God is love because holiness without love translates into tyranny.”
― Murray Pura

tags: christianity, god, inspirational, politics

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“May you never be the reason why someone who loved to sing, doesn’t anymore.
Or why someone who dressed so uniquely, now wears plain clothing.
Or why someone who always spoke so excitedly about their dreams, is now silent about them.
May you never be the reason someone gave up on a part of themselves because you were demotivating, non-appreciative, hypercritical, or even worse—sarcastic about it.”
― Sharouk Mustafa Ibrahim

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