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“Anyone with an internet connection has access to more high-quality information sources than Harvard professors 50 years ago could have dreamed of. It turns out that there just aren’t many people who want to take advantage of that.”
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“And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange, Paul sat as if he had taken life unfurnished, and the upholsterer were never coming.”
― Dombey and Son
― Dombey and Son
“So many people make a name now-a-days, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”
― A Pair of Blue Eyes
― A Pair of Blue Eyes
“If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.”
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“For who owns that car, or that washing machine, or that apartment? Not the man himself. The banks own them, the insurance companies, ultimately the State. They are his only on credit, on sufferance. Every month he lops off a bit of his life and labor and mails it to the bank, or the credit card company, or the Government. He is in thrall; and there is no foreseeable end to it.”
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Pulp Fiction
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— last activity Jun 17, 2026 12:10PM
Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
Patrick’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Patrick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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