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“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
― Hell's Angels
― Hell's Angels
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
Matt’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Matt’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
326 books
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20 friends
115 books
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6 friends
651 books
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60 friends
930 books
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23 friends
16 books
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8 friends
38 books
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4 friends
283 books
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29 friends
1,011 books
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32 friends
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