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Still Life with Woodpecker

by Tom Robbins

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Mar 21, 2025 07:33AM

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto, #2)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)

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YouMap: Find Yourself. Blaze Your Path. Show the World!

by Kristin A. Sherry (Goodreads Author)

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Sam’s Quotes

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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“This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: believe, life, society

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“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: health, humanity

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“Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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“Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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