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“No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“I knew you could know the words but not match them with the life. But to be able to do it right said something about you. And I didn’t know if my judgment was good enough, or exactly what was good or bad. Though there must be times, I thought, when there was no right thing to know, just as there were times when there was no right thing to do.”
― Wildlife
― Wildlife
“Faith, thought Eszter . . . is not a matter of believing something, but believing that somehow things could be different; in the same way, music was not the articulation of some better part of ourselves, or a reference to some notion of a better world, but a disguising of the fact of our irredeemable selves and the sorry state of the world, but no, not merely a disguising but a complete, twisted denial of such facts: it was a cure that did not work, a barbiturate that functioned as an opiate.”
― The Melancholy of Resistance
― The Melancholy of Resistance
“I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, the son who spites his father by reading such books.”
― Zero K
― Zero K
“Those blanked-out eternities at the airport. Getting there, waiting there, standing shoeless in long lines. Think about it. We take off our shoes and remove our metal objects and then enter a stall and raise our arms and get body-scanned and sprayed with radiation and reduced to nakedness on a screen somewhere and then how totally helpless we are all over again as we wait on the tarmac, belted in, our plane eighteenth in line, and it’s all ordinary, it’s routine, we make ourselves forget it. That’s the thing.”
She said, “What thing?”
“What thing. Everything. It’s the things we forget about that tell us who we are.”
― Zero K
She said, “What thing?”
“What thing. Everything. It’s the things we forget about that tell us who we are.”
― Zero K
Patrick’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Patrick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
984 books
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81 friends
295 books
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30 friends
4,289 books
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226 friends
541 books
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40 friends
486 books
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54 friends
779 books
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110 friends
234 books
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96 friends
207 books
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46 friends
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Favorite Genres
Business, Chick-lit, Christian, Ebooks, Fantasy, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Romance, Self help, and Suspense
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