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“I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers
“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at empty formulas of intellectual superiority.”
― Listen to This
― Listen to This
“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Music, together with certain sorts of majestic landscape, had a well-known tendency to induce such faux-sublime moments: artificial intimations of transcendent truths, grandiose hunches about the nature of the universe. It was all nonsense. Her tears had been no different from the ones people cried at sentimental television commercials. They represented nothing but a momentary and regrettable submission to kitsch.”
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Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Brian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
298 books
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39 friends
739 books
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729 books
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444 friends
1,085 books
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254 friends
158 books
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10,051 books
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257 friends
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