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“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”
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“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
“Labour is yesterday’s operation – all about unions, all about strikes. Lanchester is not about that, it’s about people who look after people. We don’t need any union on our side.”
― Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England
― Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England
“...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“Little I had seen on the first stop challenged my scepticism about just how much New Labour had actually done for its northern heartlands, although the successful remodelling of the Port of Blyth is a clear boon. The schools may have been improved and the housing stock better, but it did little to revive a town that gradually lost its purpose.”
― Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England
― Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England
Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
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452 books
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2,330 books
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316 books
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315 books
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526 books
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150 books
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0 books
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