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Very old are we men; Our dreams are tales Told in dim Eden By Eve’s nightingales; We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie. Walter de la Mare
“During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”
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“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72”
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“For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one–probably a child–who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.”
― It
― It
“Must you have battle in your heart forever? The bloody toil of combat? Old contender, will you not yield to the immortal gods? That nightmare cannot die, being eternal evil itself – horror, and pain, and chaos; there is no fighting her, no power can fight her. All that avails is flight.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
Michael’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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