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The reality is, no matter how hard you try or what you do, you cannot control other people. And yet, you live your life as if you can.
“I’m not saying ability doesn’t matter. It certainly helps. But there’s something powerful about realizing that you’ve undersold yourself—that somehow your mind confused lack of effort for inability. This is why, whenever people ask me what I’d most like to change about the white working class, I say, “The feeling that our choices don’t matter.” The Marine Corps excised that feeling like a surgeon does a tumor. A”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it”
― Half Broke Horses
― Half Broke Horses
Shannon’s 2025 Year in Books
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