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“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”
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“Two Serbs who have never met might risk their lives to save one another because both believe in the existence of the Serbian nation, the Serbian homeland and the Serbian flag.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
Matija’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Matija’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Business, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Self help, and Young-adult
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