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“I'm not sure how far the decent is, because I'm still falling. But I've hit rock-bottom about half a dozen times in my life,”
― The Syrian Virgin
― The Syrian Virgin
“If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
“Why do the men come, do you suppose?” asked Fiver. “Who knows why men do anything? They may drive cows or sheep in the fields, or cut wood in the copses. What does it matter? I’d rather dodge a man than a stoat or a fox.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.”
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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
up smoking in the supernatural darkness of
cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities
contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and
saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes
hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy
among the scholars of war, ”
― Howl and Other Poems
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
up smoking in the supernatural darkness of
cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities
contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and
saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes
hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy
among the scholars of war, ”
― Howl and Other Poems
Olene’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Olene’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
240 books
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51 friends
213 books
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70 friends
348 books
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43 friends
83 books
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23 friends
113 books
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20 friends
150 books
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14 friends
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Psychology and Romance
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