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There is a San Francisco adage that says you should never leave home without a jacket. In the case of Chinatown, it’s never leave home without a few jackets.
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
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Pier’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Pier’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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