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So many prior pursuits now seem needlessly convoluted, or even dangerous. It sometimes doesn’t seem possible that the postal service and landline telephones were enough to perpetuate society.
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.”
― The Reader
― The Reader
“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
― Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
“Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.”
― Blue Highways. Eine Reise in Amerika.
― Blue Highways. Eine Reise in Amerika.
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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Kate’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kate’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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