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Sapiens: een Kleine Geschiedenis van de Mensheid

by Yuval Noah Harari

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“I always forget that trying to reason with the unreasonable is... unreasonable.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

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“Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

tags: books, reading

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“Life is messy, everybody makes mistakes because we’re all fucking stupid”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

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“His accidental fortune was beyond calculation, to have been born in 1948 in placid Hampshire, not Ukraine or Poland in 1928, not to have been dragged from the synagogue steps in 1941 and brought here. His white-tiled cell – a piano lesson, a premature love affair, a missed education, a missing wife – was by comparison a luxury suite. If his life so far was a failure, as he often thought, it was in the face of history’s largesse.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

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“I found to my surprise that at the start they'd been nearly as bewildered by me as I by them.

It never occurred to me that my behavior could seem to them anything but awkward and provincial, certainly not that it would appear as enigmatic as it in fact did.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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