Brett Bonn

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Brett.


Harlot's Ghost
Brett Bonn is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating


 
Capital: A Critiq...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 389 of 624)
Feb 08, 2026 09:33AM

 
Loading...
Leo Tolstoy
“The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness. Here and now for the first time he fully appreciated the enjoyment of eating when he wanted to eat, drinking when he wanted to drink, sleeping when he wanted to sleep, of warmth when he was cold, of talking to a fellow man when he wished to talk and to hear a human voice. The satisfaction of one's needs—good food, cleanliness, and freedom—now that he was deprived of all this, seemed to Pierre to constitute perfect happiness”
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

William Gaddis
“-I'm reviewing it, the stooped man said, and started to plod off.
-You read it?
-No, he said over his shoulder, -but I know the son of a bitch who wrote it.”
William Gaddis, The Recognitions

William Gaddis
“I mean I get used to myself at night, it takes that long sometimes. The first thing in the morning I feel sort of undefined, but by midnight you've done all the things you have to do, I mean all the things like meeting people and, you know, and paying bills, and by night those things are done because by then there's nothing you can do about them if they aren't done, so there you are alone and you have the things that matter, after the whole day you can sort of take everything that's happened and go over it alone. I mean I'm never really sure who I am until night, he added.”
William Gaddis, The Recognitions

William Gaddis
“The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa....Leonardo had eye trouble....Art couldn't explain it....But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf...”
William Gaddis, The Recognitions

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

year in books
brooklyn
82 books | 2 friends

liv goff
530 books | 5 friends

Daniel ...
259 books | 29 friends

Elfira ...
39 books | 9 friends

Liv
Liv
15 books | 3 friends

Miller ...
105 books | 7 friends

Kayla P...
54 books | 5 friends





Polls voted on by Brett

Lists liked by Brett