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Sam Retton
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“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.”
― Pop Kids
― Pop Kids
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
― Giovanni’s Room
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
― Giovanni’s Room
Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
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134 friends
198 books
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254 books
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696 books
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255 friends
257 books
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134 friends
34 books
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553 books
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2 books
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43 friends
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