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“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Young enough to think desire alone shapes the world.”
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
“When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.”
― Things I Don't Want to Know
― Things I Don't Want to Know
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“One of the greatest myths of addiction is that it’s interesting. There is a slight glamour in the beginning, a feeling of doing something wrong, of indulging in a weird world populated by ghosts who used to be struggling musicians but don’t make music anymore, or writers who never write. And then your whole life is getting high and being numb, and there’s absolutely no reason to leave your bed except to get more money. Your life becomes a triangle of elemental needs: get money, get drugs, get home.”
― Problems
― Problems
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Isha’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Isha’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Fantasy, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Philosophy, and Poetry
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