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“I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack of resources… And I began to see there was something that, at that time, seemed to me almost as important as being a famous researcher or making some substantial contribution to medical science, and this was helping those people.”
― The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
― The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
“You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection.
Choice is a subtle form of disease.”
― Running Dog
Choice is a subtle form of disease.”
― Running Dog
“Undoubtedly someone is going to toss the words heteronormative and individualizing the structural at me, and that person should stop reading immediately, not just this book but all books, your mind is broken and it is better suited for TV. I don't mean you are stupid, only that you are even more a product of the system you hate than the porn you think you reject.”
― Sadly, Porn
― Sadly, Porn
“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo's tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they're you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn't know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
Umar’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Umar’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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