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'What I am is the Indian who can't die. I'm the worst dream America ever had.'

On Barak's list of best reads in 2025 and mine too. Although I'm less than halfway through, I already know this is a 5-star novel.

'I have spent my hours absorbing art, but what if instead I actively wrestle with it, trying to bring all different aspects of myself to bear on the questions it raises? It seems to me that this is a worthy mission for anybody entering an art museum. After we quiet our thinking mind to experience art, we will want to switch it back on, reassert ourselves, and in that way learn even more.'

'The first step in any encounter with art is to do nothing, to just watch, giving your eye a chance to absorb all that's there. We shouldn't think "This is good," or "This is bad," or "This is a Baroque picture which means X, Y, and Z." Ideally, for the first minute we shouldn't think at all. Art needs time to perform its work on us.' - P. Bringley

'We're all struggling against the randomness of life. None of choose our circumstances, our genetics, our talents and flaws. So let's cut one another some slack.' - AK

'In the same way that I reimagined God, I reimagined church. Community, friendship, showing love and compassion, helping people when they need help, laughing your ass off after three glasses of wine-- that is church.' - Jeff Hiller

'What i found about the blues and music, tracing things back, was that nothing came from itself. As great as it is, this is not one stroke of genius. This cat was listening to somebody and it's his variation on the theme. And you suddenly realize that everybody's connected here.'

'But now I am coming to the understanding that success has less to do with the accumulation of things and more to do with an accumulation of moments, and that creating a successful life might be as simple as determining which moments are the most valuable, and seeing how many of those I can string together in a line.'