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"he is throwing fantasy place names and terms and calendars at me left and right and only explaining like 40% of them……nevertheless I persist" — Dec 18, 2025 12:47PM
"he is throwing fantasy place names and terms and calendars at me left and right and only explaining like 40% of them……nevertheless I persist" — Dec 18, 2025 12:47PM
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"“All the Colors You Thought Were Kings” - Arkady Martine
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neat!" — Jun 01, 2025 08:37AM
"“All the Colors You Thought Were Kings” - Arkady Martine
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neat!" — Jun 01, 2025 08:37AM
“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“The Theresa desegregated in 1940, long after the neighborhood tipped over from Jews and Italians and became the domain of Southern blacks and West Indians. Everyone who came uptown had crossed some variety of violent ocean.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle
“Carney disapproved of criminals who bragged about their cleverness, crowed over the stupidity of their marks, whose paranoia stemmed not from caution but from an outsize sense of their importance.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle
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