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Nick is Currently Reading

Nick is currently reading

The Last Session

by Julia Bartz (Goodreads Author)

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— Jun 18, 2026 10:08AM

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The Country Under Heaven

by Frederic S. Durbin (Goodreads Author)

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— Jun 16, 2026 09:01AM

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Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham #4)

by Benjamin Stevenson (Goodreads Author)

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Nick’s Quotes

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

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“Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

tags: politics, religion, strategy, wisdom

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“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

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“I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

tags: government, nations, politics

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