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Ailsa
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Ailsa
is currently reading
by James Joyce
bookshelves:
immediate-to-reads,
s-kindle,
l-bookriot-0-to-well-read,
l-guardian-100-best-eng-language,
l-rory-gilmore-reading-challenge,
currently-reading,
s-owned-london
progress:
(page 194 of 783)
"I promised myself I’d finish this before the twenties came back round but I‘m really struggling to see how it’s worth the faff tbh" — Dec 19, 2019 11:48PM
"I promised myself I’d finish this before the twenties came back round but I‘m really struggling to see how it’s worth the faff tbh" — Dec 19, 2019 11:48PM
“Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.”
― Laches
― Laches
“I watched wealthy men and their wives and dates dancing and playing cards and making deals: I will admire you exactly as much, no more or less, as you admire me. I will love you in the strictest moderation.”
― Boy, Snow, Bird
― Boy, Snow, Bird
“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
― Code Name Verity
― Code Name Verity
“But since you bring it up, Didier, you know what I think of language? That it’s a fake horizon and there’s something else, a real truthful thing, but language is keeping us from it. And I think we should torture language to stop fucking around and tell it to us. We should torture language to tell the truth.”
― The Flamethrowers
― The Flamethrowers
“A blend of good and bad characterized all humans, and to pretend to sort that out was an insult to human complexity. But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was OK to be murky to yourself, to know you weren't an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad.”
― The Flamethrowers
― The Flamethrowers
Ailsa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ailsa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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