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No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of
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“When the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and wholly unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly. —Toni Morrison”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“The camera implies meaning where no meaning exists. I had not celebrated that brother and sister. I had mocked them. I had exploited their sorrow. I had tried to make them part of a hopeful message on the state of the Union. To be black is to be the actor. To be white is to be the critic.”
― Américana
― Américana
“The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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“I guess the point I’m trying to make is that as a species we’re just no good at writing obituaries. We don’t know how a man or his achievements will be perceived three generations from now, any more than we know what his great-great-grandchildren will be having for breakfast on a Tuesday in March. Because when Fate hands something down to posterity, it does so behind its back.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
Dom’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dom’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
209 books
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58 friends
14 books
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38 friends
255 books
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76 friends
88 books
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256 friends
1 book
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8 friends
522 books
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18 friends
1 book
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99 friends
50 books
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55 friends
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