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I think my tolerance for over-sentimental self pitying of a relativly pedestrian childhood full of normal anxieties is all used up on the frankly more poetic Kerouac. By gritty read a bit sweary which I don't really give a crap about but gets old fas
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“A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.”
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“From my own novel.
Because in the City, you know there is nothing else, it is a place without roads, without real people, without life. Just an abandoned wreck; desolate; isolated; unloved. Somewhere you go when there is no more life inside of you, when you have no choice, no . . . desire, no personality. It’s a place where you go to die, and after you’re dead, your body is left to rot, and get blown by the wind into nothing, and there is no heaven, no hell, just earth and dust, and insects crawling over your bleached bones . . . it’s bliss.”
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Because in the City, you know there is nothing else, it is a place without roads, without real people, without life. Just an abandoned wreck; desolate; isolated; unloved. Somewhere you go when there is no more life inside of you, when you have no choice, no . . . desire, no personality. It’s a place where you go to die, and after you’re dead, your body is left to rot, and get blown by the wind into nothing, and there is no heaven, no hell, just earth and dust, and insects crawling over your bleached bones . . . it’s bliss.”
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“Good things come to those who wait, but shit pretty much shows up right away, doesn't it?”
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Tim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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51 friends
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61 books
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19 books
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74 books
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90 books
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31 books
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3 books
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18 friends
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