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“For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation”
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“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to....
How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years, and hence feel collected together in one place, rather than strung out across projects which long ago evaporated into nothing one could hold or see.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years, and hence feel collected together in one place, rather than strung out across projects which long ago evaporated into nothing one could hold or see.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Jennifer’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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