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Umar Hashmi
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“I needed death in order to believe I was living, an atmosphere of death much more real and personal than anything the newspapers can offer.”
― Americana
― Americana
“It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Have you ever seen so many people," she whispered, "gathered in one place in order to be rich, powerful and disgusting together?”
― Underworld
― Underworld
“In time I let my head ease back on the top step and I closed my eyes. I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal. I prepared myself to think of night, desert, sorrowful forests, of the moon, the stars, the west wind, baptismal mist and the rich myrrh of harvested earth. Instead I thought of tits.”
― End Zone
― End Zone
“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo's tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they're you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn't know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
Umar’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Business, Classics, Fiction, History, Memoir, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, and Travel
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