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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― The Third Policeman
― The Third Policeman
“Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.”
― The Getaway
― The Getaway
“She yawned. If the Lords of Entropy were to manifest themselves on Earth again as they had in the legendary past she felt she might welcome them as a relief, at least, to her boredom. Not, of course, that she believed in those terrible prehistoric fables, though sometimes she could not help wishing that they had really existed and that she had lived in them, for they must surely have been more colourful and stimulating than this present age, where dull Reason drove bright Romance away: granite scattering mercury.”
― Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen
― Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen
Ian’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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814 books
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490 books
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208 books
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72 books
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213 books
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235 books
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