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“I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.”
― Prejudices: First Series
― Prejudices: First Series
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
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“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”
― Letters on Cézanne
― Letters on Cézanne
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
Aaron’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Aaron’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Crime, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller
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