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2025 reread:The greatest novel of the 21st Century so far, one I've read every year since it came out. Part of my mind is always wandering the halls of statues with the ocean rolling through the lower reaches.
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After being so blown away by ...more "
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
“The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on the Internet for anything they choose to believe. The only cure for it is reading books, and lots of them.”
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing – A Brilliant Collection on Science and Technology from Newton to Star Wars
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing – A Brilliant Collection on Science and Technology from Newton to Star Wars
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.”
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“I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema, there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.”
― Essays of E.B. White
― Essays of E.B. White
“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Completists' Club
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