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“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
― A Girl of the Limberlost
― A Girl of the Limberlost
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
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“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
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“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
Derek’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Derek’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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4 friends
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