Dylan O'Sullivan
@DylanoA4
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“All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.” Working on books @InfiniteB88ks. Working on writing @Essayful. Bylines @TheSpectator, etc.
Joined July 2019
It is done. Nine years of combing the Internet, spanning 330 BC to 2023—the ultimate reading list for the aspiring writer or polymath. For those who hate clicking through, I’ve compiled 200 of the greatest books in thread-form below. 20 genres. Find yours.
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normalize trying again.
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About to watch Tenet for the first time and I enjoyed it.
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There are whole books on psychology that don't get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky
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How does C. S. Lewis do that, every paragraph is a book
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Aldous Huxley
if you’re so smart why are you so serious all the time.
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C. S. Lewis, you just live
genuinely how do u not descend into being a doomer about the current political climate.
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C. S. Lewis opened his Narnia series with a message to his goddaughter
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The most profound paragraph in all of C. S. Lewis, at least to me
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C. S. Lewis, because love is a risk
but why do intelligent people struggle with love?.
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Okay so that Miles Davis quote "if you hit a wrong note, it's the next note you play that determines if it's good or bad" applies to basically everything.
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C. S. Lewis saying more in one paragraph than many say in whole books
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Gradually, then suddenly. That's how it happens, my friend. Gradually, then suddenly. Just keep going.
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I think about this moment from Bob Dylan's 60 Minutes interview a lot
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This line from Norm Macdonald's book. hits harder in retrospect
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When Norm Macdonald met Bob Dylan, a since-deleted thread that I just love. 1/15
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I just found out that Bill Watterson (the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes) gave a commencement speech in 1990 and it's incredible. 1/2
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the holy trinity: read, write, walk.
genuine question - how do i get better at articulating myself? i want to be able to clearly express ideas.
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I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything. ― Norm Macdonald, 2016
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Write it down. You will forget it. You think you won't, but you will. Write it down.
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I just want to tweet out this C. S. Lewis quote every weekend
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The last paragraph of Norm Macdonald's memoir, every time.
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C. S. Lewis, 1935
My best friend is moving within walking distance of me next month. Life is about to be a nationally syndicated sitcom broe.
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Once again thinking about the greatest tweet of all time
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This passage from Schopenhauer is so brilliantly brutal
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Louise Glück, a few years before winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, in an email to one of her students
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I still watch this Norm segment every couple of weeks because it exhibits the best comedic timing I've ever seen
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Napoleon once said that the surprising thing was not that every man has his price, but how low it is, and I can't help but see that everywhere now.
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It’s the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny’s, wear a hat, whatever you wanna do. — Norm Macdonald, 2017
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Running away from it (Carl Jung)
what's the most dangerous game to play in life?.
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C. S. Lewis, just to remind you what's important this weekend
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There's something about a soulless job that makes you crave mindless entertainment, and that's the combination that slowly kills you.
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Carl Jung
the weird shall inherit the earth.
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Thornton Wilder
I am anti-fiction more generally. Why don’t you learn about things that actually happened?.
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Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz on the reality of wasted potential, brutal
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When David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking.
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Eric Hoffer, evergreen
impressive how tired i can be from doing literally nothing.
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“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.”. A wild book
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Dostoevsky, facing execution, in a letter to his brother. life is a gift
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I see Neil deGrasse Tyson is being silly again, so a good time to resurrect this
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