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“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
― The Elements of Style
― The Elements of Style
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
95 books
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25 friends
477 books
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60 friends
1,300 books
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99 friends
245 books
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24 friends
174 books
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13 friends
537 books
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47 friends
255 books
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22 friends
645 books
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42 friends
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