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Grant’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Grant’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Grant Patten
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"First thoughts: I should start with the fact that I have never used a Rick Steves guidebook or watched one of his travel specials. I think understanding his audience would have better prepared me for the extremely conservative takes from a man who ac"
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"The ultimate souvenir is a broader outlook." Got various travel ideas from here, such as adding Gibraltar onto my Spain vacation. Some chapters were a skip because I already know definitely 100% that I have zero interest in visiting a place, even tho ...more |
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| Can see some value in the Project Canvas framework and Benefits Card for kickstarting projects. Using Boeing as an example of great project management is not something that aged so well in light of the Boeing scandals since the publication of this bo ...more | |
“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
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“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Correction
― Correction
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
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“Mother, have you noticed that this society we’re in tends to be a little…repressive?”
“What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that mean, that strange new word, ‘repressive,’ that I have never heard before?”
“It means…it’s like when you decide to do something, and you get up out of your chair to do it, and you take a step, and then become aware of frosty glances being directed at you from every side.”
“Frosty glances?”
“Your desires are stifled.”
“What desires are you talking about?”
“Just desires in general. Any desires. It’s a whole…I guess atmosphere is the…word…a tendency on the part of the society…”
“You’d better sew some more pillow cases, Eugenie.”
― Sixty Stories
“What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that mean, that strange new word, ‘repressive,’ that I have never heard before?”
“It means…it’s like when you decide to do something, and you get up out of your chair to do it, and you take a step, and then become aware of frosty glances being directed at you from every side.”
“Frosty glances?”
“Your desires are stifled.”
“What desires are you talking about?”
“Just desires in general. Any desires. It’s a whole…I guess atmosphere is the…word…a tendency on the part of the society…”
“You’d better sew some more pillow cases, Eugenie.”
― Sixty Stories
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