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Joe Hobson
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“I like history books too. They teach us that we’re basically the same, whether now or in the old days. There may be a few differences in clothing and lifestyle, but there’s not that much difference in what we think and do. Human beings are
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“Mr. Head could have said to it that age was a choice blessing and that only with years does a man enter into that calm understanding of life that makes him a suitable guide for the young. This, at least, had been his own experience.”
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
“One of my friends lost her virginity when she was twelve to her older brother’s nineteen-year-old friend. She said he crept into her bedroom in the middle of the night and took her virginity. At the time I thought that sounded so cool, but now I can see clearly that she was raped. There was such a fine line between cool and raped in those days. We had no idea that certain behavior was inappropriate because it was all normal to us.”
― Acne
― Acne
“If you don't think the tech and marketing worlds have less than six degrees of separation from the San Francisco art underground, then you've never seen them camp together at Burning Man. Sometimes they resent and loathe each other, but they still go to some of the same sex parties.”
― Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground
― Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground
“As I took in all the sick and injured babies around me, I could feel empathy being forced upon me and I did not like it.”
― Acne
― Acne
“Our family was an organic, free-range, humanely sourced kind of family. The kind of family who uses plant-based cleaners that aren’t strong enough to actually degrease anything so every pot and pan has a sort of waxy sheen on it forever. My parents were hippies and didn’t do anything according to the status quo. I’m pretty sure my father still wakes up every morning, checks in on what the entire world is doing, and then does the opposite.”
― Acne
― Acne
Joe’s 2025 Year in Books
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