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Andrew

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Andrew is Currently Reading

Andrew is currently reading

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

by John Kelly (Goodreads Author)

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Minecraft: The Mountain: An Official Minecraft Novel

by Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 28, 2026 04:57AM

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Getting to "Got It!": Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn

by Betty K. Garner

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Andrew’s Quotes

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: books, infinite-jest

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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: first-sentences

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“And it is awful here, there is no other way to say it. But I believe that Detroit is America’s city. It was the vanguard of our way up, just as it is the vanguard of our way down. And one hopes the vanguard of our way up again. Detroit is Pax Americana...America’s way of life was built here.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy

tags: american-life, detroit

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