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Alice Adams
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“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Somewhere the moon has fallen through a window and broken into thirty pieces of silver.”
― Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
― Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
“It doesn't take much to convince yourself that you're doing okay, just some discretionary income and a regularity to your days.”
― Bliss Montage
― Bliss Montage
“Even then, they understood that American life is unbounded promise and hypocrisy, faith and greed, new spectrums of joy and self-doubt, freedom enabled by enslavement. All of these things at once.”
― Stay True: A Memoir
― Stay True: A Memoir
“Derrida remarked that friendship’s driver isn’t the pursuit of someone who is just like you. A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”
― Stay True: A Memoir
― Stay True: A Memoir
Alice’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alice’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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