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“Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency'.”
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
“The only good cage is an empty cage.”
― The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants
― The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants
“The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Amitha’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amitha’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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220 friends
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535 books
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234 books
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202 books
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161 books
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164 books
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