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I too am not a paragon of virtue: I might’ve shot him there and then if I had been someone else and not the person I imagine myself to be.
“Advertising,” he wrote, “now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence. It dominates the media, it has vast power in the shaping of popular standards and it is really one of the very limited groups of institutions which exercise social control.”
― The Fifties
― The Fifties
“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
Peter’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,156 books
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1,291 friends
880 books
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1,188 friends
73 books
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391 friends
54 books
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1,447 friends
78 books
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1,660 friends
22 books
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37 friends
56 books
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496 friends
36 books
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1,369 friends
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