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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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Hemingway described his process in similar terms: acquiring rich experiences, then retreating to cogitate and write about them.

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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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“The future happens. No matter how much we scream.”
― Derek Walcott, The Odyssey

tags: acceptance, future

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“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.”
― Henry Rollins

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Scribner Books — 128 members — last activity Apr 10, 2013 12:59PM
Welcome to the Scribner Books Goodreads group! Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, is home to Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Kin ...more

Lost Generation — 222 members — last activity Jul 02, 2015 03:59PM
In the epigraph to Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term 'lost generation' to describe the group of ...more

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A group for people who enjoy literature written by Japanese authors, the arts, culture, and history of Japan. May 2026: Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawa ...more