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“This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: "I know just what you mean.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.”
― Imperium
― Imperium
“The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.”
― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
“Sometimes," he said, summing up the discussion with an aphorism I have never forgotten, "if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight--start a fight, even if you do not know how you are going to win it, because it is only when a fight is on, and everything is in motion, that you can hope to see your way through.”
― Imperium
― Imperium
Jarrod’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jarrod’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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30 friends
496 books
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118 books
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231 books
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6 books
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117 books
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293 books
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244 books
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