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“I didn’t think anything would come of this canvas,’ Crawford said. ‘Well, what the hell did you expect me to do?’ ‘The best you can, that’s all.’ Crawford rose to leave. ‘Busy work’s been a narcotic for me sometimes, especially after I quit the booze. For you too, I think.’ Graham was angry. Crawford was right, of course.”
― Red Dragon
― Red Dragon
“Helberg understood the way that words create boundaries for our experiences. He wanted to avoid a situation in which members of his group were continuously remarking to each other throughout the day on just how ‘amazing’ everything was, instead of actually concentrating on it being amazing.”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
“Allow the world to vanish when you go into it. To listen is to search for new opportunities, to seek fresh challenges. The most important book you can read is the one about yourself. It is open.”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
“Dopamine is not programmed to release a feeling of fulfilment even if you’ve achieved what you sought and craved: so you are never satisfied. This means I continue to google, twenty minutes after I’ve found what I was initially searching for.”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
“He watched her in the aisles: Molly, his pretty baseball wife, with her ceaseless vigilance for lumps, her insistence on quarterly medical check-ups for him and Willy, her controlled fear of the dark; her hard-bought knowledge that time is luck. She knew the value of their days. She could hold a moment by its stem. She had taught him to relish.”
― Red Dragon
― Red Dragon
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Ash’s 2025 Year in Books
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