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“For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father’s face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
Peter’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
690 books
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20 friends
351 books
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208 friends
1,837 books
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529 friends
778 books
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323 friends
572 books
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99 friends
904 books
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44 friends
2,855 books
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1,218 friends
6,442 books
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71 friends
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