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“do you know what a cliché is? It’s a story so fine and thrilling that it’s grown old in its hopeful retelling.”
― French Exit
― French Exit
“It’s not that I’m unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it’s that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“But as I drove away and turned back in the car to take what promised to be my last view of the house, I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it,”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“the trouble with knowing people is how the target keeps moving.”
― Biography of X
― Biography of X
“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
Rob’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Rob’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
271 books
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4,249 friends
6,297 books
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284 friends
912 books
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553 friends
1,927 books
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693 friends
311 books
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1,883 friends
2,027 books
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42 friends
219 books
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12 friends
216 books
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115 friends
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