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Tim
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“...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.”
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“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
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“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. ”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.”
― Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts
― Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts
“I suppose I am talking about just that: the ambiguity of belonging to a generation distrustful of political highs, the historical irrelevancy of growing up convinced that the heart of darkness lay not in some error of social organization but in man's own blood. If man was bound to err, then any social organization was bound to be in error. It was a premise which still seems to me accurate enough, but one which robbed us early of a certain capacity for surprise. ”
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Tim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
246 books
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79 friends
1,118 books
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23 friends
239 books
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112 friends
130 books
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14 friends
526 books
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121 friends
119 books
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47 friends
104 books
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27 friends
18 books
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5 friends
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