James Surprenant
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“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
― Brighton Rock
― Brighton Rock
“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
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“If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Factotum
― Factotum
James’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Christian, Classics, Comics, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Nonfiction
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