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“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Candide
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?'
Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?”
― Candide
Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?”
― Candide
Tally’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tally’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
352 books
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29 friends
311 books
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85 friends
368 books
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35 friends
92 books
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59 friends
10 books
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32 friends
3 books
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27 friends
50 books
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91 friends
1 book
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46 friends
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