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Bobby
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“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“That period had been the peak of his life, though he had not realized it then. It had gone by without time for reflection, ending while he was still thinking things were going to get better.”
― Fat City
― Fat City
“They share a lot, astronomy and childhood. Both are voyages across huge distances. Both search for facts beyond their grasp. Both theorize wildly and let possibilities multiply without limits. Both are humbled every few weeks. Both operate out of ignorance. Both are mystified by time. Both are forever starting out.”
― Bewilderment
― Bewilderment
“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
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“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
Bobby’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bobby’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
931 books
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12 friends
1,162 books
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181 friends
401 books
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63 friends
2,030 books
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219 friends
542 books
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588 books
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89 friends
827 books
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55 friends
15 books
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124 friends
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