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“It seemed very remarkable that you could travel halfway around the world and still end up looking at some ducks.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“But to me it seemed that one had always been midway the journey of our life, and would be maybe right up until the moment of death. •”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Like all the stories I wrote at that time, it was based on an unusual atmosphere that had impressed me in real life. I thought that was the point of writing stories: to make up a chain of events that would somehow account for a certain mood—for how it came about and for what it led to.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.”
― Courtship Rite
― Courtship Rite
“Most people, the minute they meet you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people – people they could get rid of.... Everyone is trying to reassure themselves: I'm not going to get kicked off the boat, they are. They're always separating people into two groups, allies and dispensable people... The number of people who want to understand what you're like instead of trying to figure out whether you get to stay on the boat - it's really limited.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
Katharine’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katharine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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878 books
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459 friends
1,316 books
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200 friends
276 books
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110 friends
530 books
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