“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Irony alone is damning.The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.”
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@anaiskireiholm.bsky.socialFrom Chapter 9—“By the time I left, I thought a bigger city would let me be.”
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
- The Iliad by Homer
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.”
@daxcornwell.bsky.social"We muddle through somehow. Us lonely ones."
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong and alert—when in fact the opposite is the case. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
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@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Really, some cases shouldn’t even smell the court room. Screw Habaeus Corpus, lock up the criminal and have the keys thrown away.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough.”
