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“It strikes me that the power or capability of a man in getting rich is in inverse proportion to his reflective powers and in direct proportion to his impudence.”
― An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace
― An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace
“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
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“Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.
Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
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Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
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“It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”
― Gone Girl
And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”
― Gone Girl
“But love doesn’t control, and I suppose that’s why it’s the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person we’re giving our heart to won’t break it, and be willing to forgive them when they do, even as they will forgive us. Real love stories don’t have dictators, they have participants. Love is an ever-changing, complicated, choose-your-own adventure narrative that offers the world but guarantees nothing.”
― Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy
― Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy
Jerrie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jerrie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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