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Peter is Currently Reading

Peter is currently reading

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

by William Gibson

bookshelves: currently-reading, 1001, science-fiction, dystopia

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“[T]here is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: childhood, good, home, optimism, uplifting

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“After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

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“You always know when it’s your first time, don’t you? But you rarely know when it’s your final time.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

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“Pity acts through the imagination, the higher light of the world, and imagination arises from the world of things, as a rainbow from the sun.”
― Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter

tags: 1001-books-list

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“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

tags: happiness, storytelling, the-world-around-us

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