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Joshua is Currently Reading

Joshua Stein is currently reading

Clay's Ark (Patternist, #3)

by Octavia E. Butler

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"Haven't read anything from Patternmaster in probably 15 years, and I'm honestly unsure if I've ever read this one (or just parts). Really looking forward to it." — Oct 04, 2023 01:06PM

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Joshua’s Quotes

“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

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“Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform- and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled.”
― David Foster Wallace, Both Flesh and Not: Essays

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“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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“Magic doesn't come from talent, it comes from pain.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

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“In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.”
― Christopher Hitchens

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