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gang our medical system is so much more cooked than i thought

bro 😭

appreciate what you have.

lestat is such a ho

The Christian replies: "Don't talk damned nonsense."

hes funny and i like him

"That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an 'it' where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real."

hmm i wonder how this book could possibly apply to todays world

"Love him," said Jacques, with vehemence, " love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"
gng how is this book so good 😭😭

guys i didnt realize how good this book was when i read it the first time. i actually adore this book

"'Man was made to mourn,' says the poet. But not so: — he was made to diddle. This is his aim — his object- his end. And for this reason when a man’s diddled we say he’s 'done.'"

"there is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn" insane bar

"the absurd man" lowk sounds like anarchist theory like there's a quotes from v for vendetta that goes "this is not anarchy--this is do what thou wilt" and thats how camus describes the absurd (ps read v for vendetta)

if her writing style doesnt improve this might a dnf

"Perhaps [my father] had supposed that my growing up would bring us closer together---whereas, now that he was trying to find out something about me, I was in full flight from him. I did not want him to know me... And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitably undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him."
bruh james baldwin knows my relationship with my dad

"To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you."

my cousin liked my progress update of "1% finished" so i had to update it to where i actually am. im liking it, but yann martel is a d1 yapper

to quote my brother, "yikes"

to quote my brother, "yikes"

dude he HATES upton sinclair lmao

i forgot how much sinclair lewis just loves mormons like its so random wtf

i think trump might have used this book for his campaign strategy im gonna be real

what a prescient book dude. buzz windrip is elected on a mix of religious fervor and anti-intellectual populism

a relevant book isnt it