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Harvey L.

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Villa Coco

by Andrew Sean Greer

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Written on Water

by Eileen Chang

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Harvey’s Notes & Highlights

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

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It was care she evoked in Tariq. It was clear in their first months of friendship and it was clear now. What better quality to evoke in another, she thought, one more durable than desire, more sustainable than excitement, one that had the ...more

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Town & Country: A Novel

by Brian Schaefer

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State of Emergency

by Jeremy Tiang

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Harvey’s Quotes

“Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: attention, banal, depth, present-moment

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“he’d spent his whole life trying to make God love him—and that this didn’t matter in the slightest. All that mattered was that he loved God. He told me that once he knew this he was home free.”
― Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers

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