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“I’ve done peyote in Real de Catorce, Mexico, in a cage with a mountain lion. I’ve had seventy-eight stitches sewn into my forehead, by a veterinarian. I’ve had four concussions from falling out of four trees, three of them on a full moon. I’ve bongoed naked until the cops arrested me.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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