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“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― Back to Methuselah
― Back to Methuselah
“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”
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Vivien’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Vivien’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
998 books
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230 friends
1,533 books
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353 books
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92 friends
499 books
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2,430 books
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421 books
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309 books
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179 friends
1,223 books
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723 friends
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