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“There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.”
― A Fine and Private Place
― A Fine and Private Place
“We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.”
― Story of the Eye
― Story of the Eye
“The bar staff and croupiers all wore black with the same green triangle logo emblazoned on their shirts, and contact lenses which made their eyes shine an eerie, vibrant green. The bar optics glowed with the same green light, the intensity of which was linked to the music. As the bartender walked away to fetch the drinks, a breakdown in the techno track commenced and the bottles began to palpitate. The bartender's eyes glowed with a hallucinatory felinity that made Mangle feel nervous.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room
“Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.”
― Lectures on Literature
― Lectures on Literature
“New places and new roles forced me into acute awareness of how others were responding to me. When a human is being himself, flowing with his inner nature, wearing his natural appropriate masks, integrated with his environment, he is normally unaware of subtleties in another's behavior. Only if the other person breaks a conventional pattern is awareness stimulated. However, breaking my established patterns was threatening to my deeply ingrained selves and pricked me to a lvel of consciousness which is unusual, unusual since the whole instinct of human behavior is to find environments congenial to the relaxation of consciousness. By creating problems for myself I created thought.”
― The Dice Man
― The Dice Man
Jane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
209 books
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326 books
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41 books
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15 friends
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