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“I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.”
― The Message
― The Message
“It may seem strange that people who have already attained a position of power through violence invest so much time in justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises a wall between themselves and those they seek to throttle and rob.”
― The Message
― The Message
“I guess it’s worth pointing out the obvious—that the very governors and politicians who loudly exalt the values of free speech are among the most aggressive prosecutors of “divisive concepts.”
― The Message
― The Message
“The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories.”
― Stay True
― Stay True
“You cannot act upon what you cannot see. And we are plagued by dead language and dead stories that serve people whose aim is nothing short of a dead world. And it is not enough to stand against these dissemblers. There has to be something in you, something that hungers for clarity. And you will need that hunger, because if you follow that path, soon enough you will find yourself confronting not just their myths, not just their stories, but your own.”
― The Message
― The Message
Miran’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Miran’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
179 books
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35 friends
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201 books
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643 books
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1,840 books
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226 friends
147 books
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26 friends
11 books
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38 friends
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