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“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
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“I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
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“The silence of the room crowded in like a fist, slowly being clenched.”
― The Light Fantastic
― The Light Fantastic
“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”
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Mat’s 2025 Year in Books
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