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Brian Butler
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I see now that the place I’ve been yearning for is my own imagination.
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“thought I was done with this torture, but this is a bad day when thoughts slide along memories, sharpening them like knives.”
― The Daughter
― The Daughter
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“Painting saved me, but I can’t say I loved painting. I painted because I needed to. What I really loved, what I love, is having-painted. That was the high. Making something that would never have existed in the entirety of humanity had I not been there at that specific moment to make it.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
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Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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