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“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
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“They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.”
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“The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.”
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“By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
0 books
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2 friends
1 book
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20 friends
101 books
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13 friends
0 books
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93 friends
71 books
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19 friends
525 books
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40 friends
56 books
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11 friends
1 book
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23 friends
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