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“You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many problems and dread. Every social situation is a potential nightmare.”
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“Simplicity without a name Is free from all external aim. With no desire, at rest and still, All things go right as of their will.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention”
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“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the centre of your being, then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You’ve got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you’re compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
Oscar’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Oscar’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
Polls voted on by Oscar
Lists liked by Oscar
