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A crude hut of driftwood had been built on the long curve of the beach, although describing it as ‘built’ was a slander on skilled crude hut builders throughout the ages; if the sea had simply been left to pile the wood up it might have
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“The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.”
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“When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.”
― The Beach
― The Beach
“What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind - then all the rest is prejudice, simply aritificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.”
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“In a vision, Irie has seen a time, a time not far from now, when roots won’t matter any more because they can’t because they mustn’t because they’re too long and they’re too tortuous and they’re just buried too damn deep. She looks forward to it.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
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