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Go make that stuff. The manifesto is this: Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use—do the work you want to see
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“And in time we come to see that not only are we on the sidelines of the universe but that it’s of a universe of sidelines, that there is no centre, just a giddy mass of waltzing things, and that perhaps the entirety of our understanding consists of an elaborate and ever-evolving knowledge of our own extraneousness, a bashing away of mankind’s ego by the instruments of scientific enquiry until it is, that ego, a shattered edifice that lets light through.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“Why would you want to be with someone if they didn’t change your life?”
― Bonsai
― Bonsai
“This is zero,
the elementary poverty
of all that ever was born,
in which nothing lives by chance
but only by choosing to
and by knowing how--and by
the excess of desire that rises
above the mind, surrounding
and hovering like a song.”
― The Country of Marriage
the elementary poverty
of all that ever was born,
in which nothing lives by chance
but only by choosing to
and by knowing how--and by
the excess of desire that rises
above the mind, surrounding
and hovering like a song.”
― The Country of Marriage
“Until then what can we do in our abandoned solitude but gaze at ourselves? Examine ourselves in endless bouts of fascinated distraction, fall in love and in hate with ourselves, make a theatre, myth and cult of ourselves. Because what else is there? To become superb in our technology, knowledge and intellect, to itch with a desire for fulfilment that we can’t quite scratch; to look to the void (which still isn’t answering) and build spaceships anyway, and make countless circlings of our lonely planet, and little excursions to our lonely moon and think thoughts like these in weightless bafflement and routine awe. To turn back to the earth, which gleams like a spotlit mirror in a pitch-dark room, and speak into the fuzz of our radios to the only life that appears to be there. Hello? Konnichiwa, ciao, zdraste, bonjour, do you read me, hello?”
― Orbital
― Orbital
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Phelan Family Book Club
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Jane had the great idea to start a family book club. I think Goodreads would be a useful tool for us.
The 1A Book Club
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It’s no secret that we at 1A love books. And we know you do, too. That’s why we’re launching the 1A Book Club. We want to hear your questions, thought ...more
Mike’s 2024 Year in Books
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