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“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.”
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“she felt like a painting of a saint being assumed into heaven. The patron saint of putting up with idiots, whoever that was.”
― Leviathan Falls
― Leviathan Falls
“Portraits of great war leaders or critical battles that looked flattering, well composed, and balanced always felt like propaganda. Tanaka had spent a lot of time in the halls of power. She’d seen many paintings of great men in uniform staring eagle-eyed into the distance where their future glory lay. She’d seen very few paintings of soldiers with only a ragged tent and a dying fire to hold back the cold nights before some stranger tried to bayonet them in the morning.”
― Leviathan Falls
― Leviathan Falls
Cecilia’s 2025 Year in Books
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501 books
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936 books
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610 books
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1,833 books
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559 books
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392 books
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