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Boysie Freeman (not my real name, it's just my Internet name)
“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.”
― Dry
― Dry
“Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?”
― Confessions of a Mask
― Confessions of a Mask
“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“When God created us, did he actually intend to make us so ugly?”
― The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis of Chinese Culture
― The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis of Chinese Culture
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol
Boysie Freeman’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Boysie Freeman’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
840 books
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150 friends
889 books
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70 friends
67 books
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18 friends
3,013 books
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432 friends
175 books
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52 friends
3,139 books
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278 friends
469 books
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126 friends
627 books
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133 friends
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Favorite Genres
Book Club, Classics, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, History, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Romance
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