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Chris Grieves
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“Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?
If it were not for language, could we lie?”
― Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
If it were not for language, could we lie?”
― Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
“Make up your mind, yaar, choose one thing.'
'How can I? I'm just a human being,' he replied”
― A Fine Balance
'How can I? I'm just a human being,' he replied”
― A Fine Balance
“A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.”
― A Fine Balance
― A Fine Balance
“Works that have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that very reason - or at least they appeal to certain types of people... You discover something about that work that tugs at your heart - or maybe we should say that the work discovers you.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,865 books
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149 friends
699 books
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243 friends
2,087 books
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112 friends
695 books
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26 friends
499 books
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85 friends
372 books
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212 books
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63 friends
106 books
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64 friends
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