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“Sarcasm is irony which has lost its soul”
― The Noise of Time
― The Noise of Time
“Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.”
― The Noise of Time
― The Noise of Time
“Part of jazz is the illusion of spontaneity and Monk played the piano as though he’d never seen one before.”
― But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
― But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
“Mingus had always known that that was what the blues was: music played to the dead, calling them back, showing them the way back to the living. Now he realized part of the blues was the opposite of that: the desire to be dead yourself, a way of helping the living find the dead.”
― But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
― But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
Wilfred’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Wilfred’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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2,053 books
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678 books
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706 books
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1,179 books
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933 books
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4,485 books
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161 friends
140 books
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36 friends
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