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“The history had already been written. What is history but an adjudication of memory. And what is memory but a faithless rendering of all sex, death, justice, murder, prayer, greed, hope, mercy, and love. Memory was as molten as the soul.”
― Ohio
― Ohio
“How to explain that we all show up to this party with no invite and no apparent host, and we can depart from it at any moment for no reason?”
― Ohio
― Ohio
“All things built by humans descend into the same pitfalls: loathing, vitriol, malicious intent. All the things we build in order to communicate, to connect, to find people like us so we feel less alone, and to find people not like us at all so we learn how to adapt, end up turning against us. Avoiding human nature at its most pure and even at its worst is pointless. No one deserves your attention, but no one has earned your withdrawal.”
― One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
― One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
“No matter where you went or how novel it seemed when you first pulled into town, it always turned into the same bars, same food, same women, same politics, same liquor, same drugs, same troubles.”
― Ohio
― Ohio
“I guess this is a prayer to the unsettled arc of mortality, the hoist and shuffle of this uncertain moment, our lives like bulbs flaring and going out as the city's seven million souls--ah, but that's another argument--click out their bedside lamps and curl toward whatever approximation of warmth they have found, while the music plays on in the streets below, the neon humming, the ambulances wailing the sudden shocked song of the living.”
― Preliminary Report
― Preliminary Report
Shawn’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Shawn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,474 books
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267 friends
45 books
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123 friends
288 books
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108 friends
1,062 books
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291 friends
123 books
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2,847 friends
760 books
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80 friends
277 books
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17 friends
178 books
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12 friends
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