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Kathleen Duffy
https://www.goodreads.com/kathleenduffy
Our sense of self is tied up in the stories we tell. In gossip and in religion, we can build for ourselves a placebo net so strong and so fortified that it can catch us when we fall by promising a different, better world.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Kathleen’s 2025 Year in Books
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