“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
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“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
“But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“...and a third had died in his bunk of natural causes-- for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life”
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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
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