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Simply put, you cannot force someone to believe something they absolutely do not on any level want to believe by using some set of evil techniques to “wash” their brain.
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
― Slaughterhouse-five
― Slaughterhouse-five
Joanna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joanna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
315 books
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82 friends
12,964 books
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135 friends
884 books
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54 friends
1,552 books
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163 friends
415 books
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110 friends
1,287 books
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115 friends
977 books
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46 friends
245 books
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