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“Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”
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“No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.”
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“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
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“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”
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Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ryan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
642 books
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40 friends
1,020 books
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15 friends
128 books
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96 friends
763 books
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66 friends
130 books
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10 friends
161 books
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18 friends
381 books
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65 friends
129 books
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47 friends
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