August Van Zorn

Reader. Posting my favorite lines from books as I read them.

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@_ashawndabney Me, my wife, my kids, most of the people I work with, almost everyone of my family members.

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He did not dream, and he’d once made the mistake of telling her this. ‘Everyone dreams Paul, you just don’t care enough about what your subconscious has to say.’ #TheGloaming #MelanieFinn

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@wheredthesodago 25mg XR was my sweet spot when I use to take it.

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@SGJ72 Tender is the Flesh with a Chainsaw

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@chipnanimus 20+48=68
Take 2 off the top of the 7
2+68=70
Add the remaining 5
70+5=75

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@saderotica The @TwoDollarRadio catalog is basically a clinic on good book covers.

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“I’m not bleeding, but full of blood. I have potential.” @dobbygibson #skirmish

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@robwhart Dark on Netflix. Incredible German television series.

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“Her mother had always said that people went on vacations in order to not flee their lives—a temporary abandonment could prevent a permanent one.” #thethirdhotel #lauravandenberg

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“Maybe I’m not so ugly, I thought, maybe I can’t see myself.” #elenaferrante #MyBrilliantFriend

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"It's very hard to come to an understanding of the dead based on details gathered exclusively by the living" #thejobofthewasp #colinwinnette

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"You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God" #clockworkorange #anthonyburgess

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"Inside everything I have ever written, there is a girl. Sometimes she is dead, and haunts the story like a ghost." #lydiayuknavitch

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"I may rip off my dress, maim myself with a knife, burn my beautiful face, and go begging for alms." #thebrotherskaramazov #fyodordostoevky

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@GeoffRickly Listen to it now. Right now.

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@GeoffRickly Mayakovsky's Revolver is incredible. That book made me realize I love poetry.

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Imagine if these people ever faced actual oppression.

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"It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers." #ernesthemingway #theoldmanandthesea

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"Sir," says Jesse solemnly, "I have come to kill American song." #shadowbahn #steveerickson

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"Oh God, obliterate me. Make me fruitful. Mortify my flesh, that I may be multiplied. Let me be fulfilled." #handmaidstale @MargaretAtwood