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Some Saturday mornings they’d sleep in late and then go get coffee and sometimes prowl bookstores, something else he never thought he’d do,
Otis Chandler liked this
“My swag was phenomenal.”
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“We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
― Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
“Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.”
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
“The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.”
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
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