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“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
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“But now suddenly it occurs to me that by far the main protagonist of twentieth-century literature must be the chattering mind, which usually means the mind that can’t make up its mind, the mind postponing action in indecision and, if we’re lucky, poetry.”
― Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
― Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
“I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.”
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“We have gold because we cannot trust governments”
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“When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought to the object of their thinking. Almost”
― Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
― Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
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Looney’s 2025 Year in Books
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