Hilarious, shocking, tongue-in-cheek, disgusting, horrific, and at times, repetitive — but what a wild ride!!!
*ISo ... he didn't kill anyone?
Thoughts?
Hilarious, shocking, tongue-in-cheek, disgusting, horrific, and at times, repetitive — but what a wild ride!!!
*I have to return some videotapes.*
*I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.*
“... there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there ... I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning.” ...more
Love this little book, would revisit. I’ve been getting Kleon's newsletter for years.
“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your Love this little book, would revisit. I’ve been getting Kleon's newsletter for years.
“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.”
“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 done.”
“Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else — that's how you'll get ahead.”
“Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.”
“Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibliographies. It’s not the book you start with, it’s the book that book leads you to. Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.” Don’t worry about doing research. Just search.”...more
Excellent, and very meaty — although I did like *Meditations in an Emergency* a tad more.
“I can’t even find a pond small enough to drown in without beiExcellent, and very meaty — although I did like *Meditations in an Emergency* a tad more.
“I can’t even find a pond small enough to drown in without being ostentatious”
"when the tears of a whole generation are assembled they will only fill a coffee cup just because they evaporate doesn't mean life has heat 'this various dream of living' I am alive with you full of anxious pleasures and pleasurable anxiety hardness and softness listening while you talk and talking while you read I read what you read you do not read what I read which is right, I am the one with the curiosity you read for some mysterious reason I read simply because I am a writer the sun doesn't necessarily set, it just disappears"
"I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?"
"and the light seems to be eternal and joy seems to be inexorable I am foolish enough always to find it in the wind"
"lying in a hammock on St. Mark's Place sorting my poems in the rancid nourishment of this mountainous island they are coming and we holy ones must go is Tibet historically a part of China? as I historically belong to the enormous bliss of American death"
"door to heaven? portal stopped realities and eternal licentiousness or at least the jungle of impossible eagerness"...more
*2020 REREAD* Still as epic and excellent as I remember—one of my favorite books on the multiverse. I want to bottle up the essence of this book, drin*2020 REREAD* Still as epic and excellent as I remember—one of my favorite books on the multiverse. I want to bottle up the essence of this book, drink it, and exude literary coolness like Crouch. _____________________
One of my favorite books of 2017.
Short and packs a punch, I may revisit this one again soon—or at the very least—read another Blake Crouch book.
⭐️✨
“I’ve always known, on a purely intellectual level, that our separateness and isolation are an illusion. We’re all made of the same thing—the blown-out pieces of matter formed in the fires of dead stars.”
“For anyone who has wondered what their life might look like at the end of the road not taken.”...more
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