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One becomes a good plumber, or mother, or Christian, or Dodger fan, or teenager. One lives section by section, one stage to the next.
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Veronica Scully
“Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded”
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“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
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“WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
― 1984
― 1984
“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
Manuel’s 2025 Year in Books
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