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"stop what you’re doing and read this immediately" — Apr 27, 2024 09:13AM
"stop what you’re doing and read this immediately" — Apr 27, 2024 09:13AM
“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“...There are in me the makings of a very fine loafer...”
― The Sign of The Four
― The Sign of The Four
“Connell's initial assessment of the reading was not disproven. It was a culture as class performance, literature fetishized for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterward feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Science sometimes sees itself as impersonal, as “pure thought', independent of its historical and human origins. It is often taught as if this were the case. But science is a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhoods.”
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
― Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
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