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Ben Keneally-Smith
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“I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace,
The prurient ape's defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.”
― Ape and Essence
The prurient ape's defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.”
― Ape and Essence
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
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Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
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