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“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.”
― Trout Fishing in America
I'm not, she said.”
― Trout Fishing in America
“Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.
Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.”
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Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.”
―
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?”
― 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
Ian’s 2025 Year in Books
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