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Claire
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when my brothers & i asked for video games, the church gave us books. we were too poor to want what we wanted.
“Maybe the trick is not to define yourself as a container for your experiences, your thoughts. Maybe it's to assume you are larger than the things you have felt over a series of years, that your history is not a list of things your body has done or been present for, that your family is not people who you spent a lot of time around as a child or carry your genetic code. Maybe the trick is to push violently at your own boundaries, to find your own contradictions, and use your teeth and nails to destroy what separates you from something else.
I am trying.”
― The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
I am trying.”
― The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
“Baldwin told the story again and again of standing on Broadway and being told by Delaney to look down. Delaney asked him what he saw, and Baldwin said a puddle. Delaney said, 'Look again,' and then Baldwin saw the reflections of the buildings, distorted and radiant in the oil on the puddle. He taught me to see, Baldwin said, and that 'what one cannot or will not see, says something about you.”
― A Chance Meeting : Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
― A Chance Meeting : Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
“We wished our two souls
might return like gulls
to the rock. In the end,
the water was too cold for us.”
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might return like gulls
to the rock. In the end,
the water was too cold for us.”
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“There were occasions when Denys, like all men whose minds have encompassed among other things the foibles of their species, experienced misanthropic moments; he could despair of men, but find poetry in a field of rock.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
“At this moment the phrase “police reform” has come into vogue, and the actions of our publicly appointed guardians have attracted attention presidential and pedestrian. You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country’s criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority. The abuses that have followed from these policies—the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects—are the product of democratic will.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
Claire’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Claire’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
482 books
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182 friends
1,820 books
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1,288 books
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266 friends
644 books
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143 friends
854 books
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4,455 books
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433 friends
1,599 books
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2,012 books
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153 friends
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