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“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”
― Beautiful Ruins
― Beautiful Ruins
“The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man I loved most. He was the reader for whom I wrote.
That’s what my writing was. Messages in bottles.”
― Hallucinating Foucault
That’s what my writing was. Messages in bottles.”
― Hallucinating Foucault
“The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.”
― The Other Place
― The Other Place
“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
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Scott’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Scott’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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874 books
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2,452 books
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