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Writing a book is rather like tequila shots. Fun at first, then almost immediately a horrific chore you barely remember starting.
“Life is no way to treat an animal.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.”
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“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
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“A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
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Alena’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alena’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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14 friends
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372 books
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38 books
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236 books
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49 books
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42 books
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