David Glines

David’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (117)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (502)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
fiction‎ (90)
history‎ (35)
civil-war‎ (11)
poetry‎ (10)
owned-to-read‎ (9)
want‎ (8)

non-fiction‎ (7)
science-fiction‎ (7)
short-stories‎ (7)
philosophy‎ (6)
audiobook‎ (5)
reference‎ (5)
classics‎ (4)
field-guide‎ (4)
graphic-novel‎ (4)
vollmann‎ (4)

biography‎ (3)
capital-l-literature‎ (3)
listen‎ (3)
wwii‎ (3)
autohagiography‎ (2)
chess‎ (2)
cookbook‎ (2)
creative-autobiography‎ (2)
economics‎ (2)
historical-lit‎ (2)

journalism‎ (2)
murakami‎ (2)
political-science‎ (2)
politics‎ (2)
russian‎ (2)
western‎ (2)
art‎ (1)
linguistics‎ (1)
psycho-thriller-fa-fa-fa-fa‎ (1)

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David’s Quotes

“Nowhere like nothing requires for its affirmation a witness which it cannot supply by its own definition.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

tags: nothing, nowhere, witness

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“Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.”
― Jesse Ball

10 likes

“Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

tags: believe, fixed, grief, rage

35 likes

“If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

tags: contemplation, fix, horror, protected, world

21 likes