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“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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“Well if you already know how the story goes, why do you need me to read it to you?"
" 'Cause I wanna hear it!”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
" 'Cause I wanna hear it!”
― Stories of Your Life and Others
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
― Self Reliance
― Self Reliance
James’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
675 books
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165 friends
666 books
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223 friends
131 books
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34 friends
82 books
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166 friends
61 books
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4 friends
252 books
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67 friends
199 books
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92 friends
111 books
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79 friends
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