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Michael Jesse Battle
“I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didnt. I dont blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.”
― All The Pretty Horses
― All The Pretty Horses
“A small soul’s going. By floodlight through the universe’s renal regions. Pale phagocytes drifting over, shadows and shapes through the tubes like the miscellany in a waterdrop. The eye at the end of the glass would be God’s.”
― Suttree
― Suttree
“an old man at the farthest end of the table prayed for them all. He asked that God remember those who had died and he asked that the living gathered together here remember that the corn grows by the will of God and beyond that will there is neither corn nor growing nor light nor air nor rain nor anything at all save only darkness. Then they ate.”
― All The Pretty Horses
― All The Pretty Horses
“but they were white men who preyed on travelers in that wilderness and disguised their work to be that of the savages. Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings. The trail of the argonauts terminated in ashes as told and in the convergence of such vectors in such a waste wherein the hearts and enterprise of one small nation have been swallowed up and carried off by another the expriest asked if some might not see the hand of a cynical god conducting with what austerity and what mock surprise so lethal a congruence.”
― Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Michael Jesse Battle’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael Jesse Battle’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,179 books
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314 friends
686 books
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575 books
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545 books
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61 books
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145 friends
798 books
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234 friends
848 books
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499 books
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408 friends
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