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“Never grow old and then go into suspension, that’s for sure. You dream young dreams. You forget what you’re coming back to. Fucking disappointment, believe me.”
Me every morning.
“The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator. When one speaks to the other then it is not to pass the time of day with et-tu-Brutes. What passes is a truth so terrible that history—at best a conspiracy, not always among gentlemen, to defraud—will never admit it. The truth will be repressed or in ages of particular elegance be disguised as something else.”
― Gravity's Rainbow
― Gravity's Rainbow
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Nicol’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nicol’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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