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Grant’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Grant’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Grant Patten
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"Lots of "glamorous wandering" in this book, but also some slips and stumbles.
Enjoyed some of the early Toronto reminiscing, but sometimes it felt like I'd been cornered at a party by someone telling me their life story in rosy, but persistently prec" Read more of this review » |
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"His best? B's prose is wonderful here. Everything is music. You read as you would listen to music otherwise it wouldn't work. It should translated into musical notation and played by a quartet.
Unusual for him, his evocative description of Haller env" Read more of this review » |
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“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
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“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Correction
― Correction
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
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“Mother, have you noticed that this society we’re in tends to be a little…repressive?”
“What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that mean, that strange new word, ‘repressive,’ that I have never heard before?”
“It means…it’s like when you decide to do something, and you get up out of your chair to do it, and you take a step, and then become aware of frosty glances being directed at you from every side.”
“Frosty glances?”
“Your desires are stifled.”
“What desires are you talking about?”
“Just desires in general. Any desires. It’s a whole…I guess atmosphere is the…word…a tendency on the part of the society…”
“You’d better sew some more pillow cases, Eugenie.”
― Sixty Stories
“What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that mean, that strange new word, ‘repressive,’ that I have never heard before?”
“It means…it’s like when you decide to do something, and you get up out of your chair to do it, and you take a step, and then become aware of frosty glances being directed at you from every side.”
“Frosty glances?”
“Your desires are stifled.”
“What desires are you talking about?”
“Just desires in general. Any desires. It’s a whole…I guess atmosphere is the…word…a tendency on the part of the society…”
“You’d better sew some more pillow cases, Eugenie.”
― Sixty Stories
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