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“I had to laugh like hell”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“It is simply amazing how quickly attitudes improve when people finally understand bats as they really are—sophisticated, beautiful, even cute, quite aside from their crucial roles as primary predators of insects, pollinators of flowers, and dispersers of seeds.”
― The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
― The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
― Last Chance to See
― Last Chance to See
“Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
2026 Booker Prize Readalong
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Marcus’s 2025 Year in Books
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