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| Don’t know why I waited so long to read this; it’s been sitting on my shelf for years. I guess it was because I assumed it would be difficult. It turned out not to be. Two reasons why it wasn’t, no doubt, are that the spelling has been modernized and ...more | |
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How Rich People Think: Condensed Edition (Ignite Reads):
"The book, which looks like a child’s book, tries to be about mental models, but in the end while it has a few valid points, it doesn’t back them up well, contradicts itself, and is so abstract as to be impractical. If you’re looking for practical adv"
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"With lots of big fat red herrings and small minnows of clues, this book runs a tight, taut ship of mystery that made for a quick and interesting read. "
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A Richer Retirement: Supercharging the 4% Rule to Spend More and Enjoy More:
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| This informative biography is very much a “life and times,” although it is not as exhaustive as that characterization might suggest. From the outset, Greenblatt proceeds as if building a case for his proposed answer to the question of why young Chris ...more | |
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“In leaving the café I asked Joyce how long he had been working on Ulysses.
"About five years," he said. "But in a sense all my life."
"Some of your contemporaries," I said, "think two books a year an average output."
"Yes," said Joyce. "But how do they do it? They talk them into a typewriter. I feel quite capable of doing that if I wanted to do it. But what's the use? It isn't worth doing.”
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"About five years," he said. "But in a sense all my life."
"Some of your contemporaries," I said, "think two books a year an average output."
"Yes," said Joyce. "But how do they do it? They talk them into a typewriter. I feel quite capable of doing that if I wanted to do it. But what's the use? It isn't worth doing.”
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“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
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“But when shallI ever get round to doing the starry sky, that picture which is always on my mind?”
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
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