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I think it’s largely true, what I once heard a famous playwright say, that there are no truly stupid human beings, no uninteresting human lives, and that you’d discover this if you were willing to sit and listen to people. But sometimes you
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“There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.”
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
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“It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.”
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“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lindsey’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lindsey’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
447 books
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257 friends
1,107 books
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49 friends
976 books
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34 friends
332 books
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172 friends
170 books
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48 friends
855 books
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170 friends
544 books
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118 friends
66,911 books
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3,222 friends
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