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“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“We do not take moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like dew on a July morning. It does not reveal but changes what it covers.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“It was nearly lunch-time before Blackie had finished and went in search of T. Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken glass and china, the dining-room was stripped of parquet, the skirting was up, the door had been taken off its hinges, and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators - and destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become. ("The Destructors")”
― Shock!
― Shock!
Sharon’s 2025 Year in Books
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