Jon Farber

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Jon is Currently Reading

Jon Farber is currently reading

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

bookshelves: classics, spy-espionage, currently-reading

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Jon’s Quotes

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western

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“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: doubt, terrifying, vile

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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

tags: truth

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“You are a thinker, that I can tell. You turn the world over in your mind to see if it is truly round.”
― Anonymous

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