2026 Reading Challenge

Happy Camping Quotes

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Robert Walser
“make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgrounds, the-mark-of-zero
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Donald Barthelme
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”
― Donald Barthelme, The King
tags: happy-campers, happy-camping, happy-playgrounds, sir-roger
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Péter Nádas
“if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them.”
― Péter Nádas, A Book of Memories
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgounds
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Fredric Brown
“people are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word.”
― Fredric Brown
tags: happy-campers, happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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John Barth
“the enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself”
― John Barth, The Floating Opera
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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B. Traven
“don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.”
― B. Traven, The Death Ship
tags: happy-campers, happy-camping
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B. Traven
“it would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.”
― B. Traven, The Death Ship
tags: happy-camping
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Fernando Pessoa
“a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
tags: 161, happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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Charles Willeford
“a man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.”
― Charles Willeford, The Machine in Ward Eleven
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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Johnny Shaw
“i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.”
― Johnny Shaw, Big Maria
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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Harper Lee
“It's grown people who always believe the worst”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
tags: happy-campers, happy-camping
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William Carlos Williams
“they are mystified by certain instances.”
― William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgrounds, impromptu-the-suckers
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Jim Dodge
“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction
tags: happy-campers, happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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Padgett Powell
“try to recall the person you thought you were and the moment you began to realize you are not that person, and try to grasp and appreciate the high quality of lunacy required for you to have ever thought you were that person.”
― Padgett Powell, The Imperative Mood
tags: happy-camping
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Péter Nádas
“we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.”
― Péter Nádas, A Book of Memories
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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Péter Nádas
“...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.”
― Péter Nádas, A Book of Memories
tags: happy-camping
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Mark Leyner
“fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.”
― Mark Leyner, The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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Donald Barthelme
“mead for my men!”
― Donald Barthelme, The King
tags: happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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B. Traven
“i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.”
― B. Traven, The Death Ship
tags: happy-campers, happy-camping
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“there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences.”
― C.J. Box, Breaking Point
tags: happy-campers, happy-camping, happy-playgrounds
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“if you are too unusual, you may turn into a collector's item.”
― John D MacDonald
tags: happy-camping, where-is-janice-gantry
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