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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
NightLights’s 2025 Year in Books
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