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Richard Harris
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Michael Ondaatje, Murakami Haruki, David Mitchell, Ann Patchett, Graha
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A Father's Son
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2013
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Roadmap to Korean
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2003
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Faces of Korea: The Foreign Experience in the Land of the Morning Calm
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The Broken Reader
No, not the electronic device — the human being.
Former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair and novelist Jeff Giles recently wrote a thought-provoking piece titled “How I Began to Love Reading Again.” In it, he described how, in 2022, “the reader in me snapped in half.” It was then that “suddenly, I couldn’t finish even half a book. Any book. Nothing held me. Everything annoyed me. Cilant
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“[A]s you will come to see, everything in life comes at a price. Nothing is free, not a single thing, tangible or intangible. There is an equilibrium at play all the time. For every gain, there is a loss of equal value. For every heart that is broken, one is sutured. It’s called balance, and it’s the only reason the universe doesn’t collapse onto itself at any given moment.”
― A Father's Son
― A Father's Son
“She’s an angel, Justin. Someone fashioned in the heavens. Women will continue to enter your life for as long as you live, but few will turn heads like Ali does. Fewer still will have her spiritus. Take it from someone who has been down this path many times, seen a great deal, and failed more often than not. Hold on to what is precious in your life with the strength needed to resist a gale-force wind. And never, ever let go.”
― A Father's Son
― A Father's Son
“[A]s you will come to see, everything in life comes at a price. Nothing is free, not a single thing, tangible or intangible. There is an equilibrium at play all the time. For every gain, there is a loss of equal value. For every heart that is broken, one is sutured. It’s called balance, and it’s the only reason the universe doesn’t collapse onto itself at any given moment.”
― A Father's Son
― A Father's Son
“She’s an angel, Justin. Someone fashioned in the heavens. Women will continue to enter your life for as long as you live, but few will turn heads like Ali does. Fewer still will have her spiritus. Take it from someone who has been down this path many times, seen a great deal, and failed more often than not. Hold on to what is precious in your life with the strength needed to resist a gale-force wind. And never, ever let go.”
― A Father's Son
― A Father's Son
“Tragedy, after all, is the invisible hand that spawns reflection, and reflection bears its fruit in the deepening of one's character.”
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“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
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