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Umar Hashmi
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“It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Undoubtedly someone is going to toss the words heteronormative and individualizing the structural at me, and that person should stop reading immediately, not just this book but all books, your mind is broken and it is better suited for TV. I don't mean you are stupid, only that you are even more a product of the system you hate than the porn you think you reject.”
― Sadly, Porn
― Sadly, Porn
“I needed death in order to believe I was living, an atmosphere of death much more real and personal than anything the newspapers can offer.”
― Americana
― Americana
“You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“In time I let my head ease back on the top step and I closed my eyes. I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal. I prepared myself to think of night, desert, sorrowful forests, of the moon, the stars, the west wind, baptismal mist and the rich myrrh of harvested earth. Instead I thought of tits.”
― End Zone
― End Zone
Umar’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Classics, Fiction, History, Memoir, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, and Travel
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