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“Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
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“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
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“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
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Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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