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a weapon so deadly that not even its extreme beauty could justify its use.
“A mother with child screamed at him and he pulled out John the Baptist, who screamed back until she was screaming for an entirely different reason.”
― Veniss Underground
― Veniss Underground
“Disneyland was designed to stay operational even during a blackout or other civic emergency. It was never intended to operate through an apocalypse.”
― The End Has Come
― The End Has Come
“Birds weren’t supposed to levitate or have four mouths or twenty pairs of wings or twelve sets of legs and undulate like a dragon. But, what could you do?”
― A Peculiar Peril
― A Peculiar Peril
“If we had some cheese, we could have a ham-and-cheese sandwich,” replies Father Captain de Soya, “if we had some ham.”
― Endymion
― Endymion
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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Valeri’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Valeri’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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168 friends
299 books
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666 books
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93 books
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567 books
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319 books
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169 books
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198 books
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58 friends
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