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“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“happiness is the frequency of positive experiences, not the intensity.”
― Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
― Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
“true fiction is more likely to include what was overlooked or ignored or barely seen or felt at the time of its occurrences but comes continually to mind ten or twenty years afterwards not on account of its having long ago provoked passion or pain but because of its appearing to be part of a pattern of meaning that extends over much of a lifetime”
― A Million Windows
― A Million Windows
“The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.”
― The Deer Park
― The Deer Park
“Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am impressed by the sturdiness and reliability of words on paper... The will to record indelibly, to set down stories in permanent words, seems to me akin to the conviction that we are larger than our biologies.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Robert’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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22 friends
305 books
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27 books
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733 books
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63 friends
13 books
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21 books
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29 friends
22 books
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46 friends
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