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“Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who like talking about books. I like paper. I like how it feels, and I like the feel of a book in my back pocket. I like how a new book smells,”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“And since the higher-order values are the ones that more represent who the person is, an addiction is a genuine challenge to one’s identity in that it leads them to act contrary to what they care about.”
― In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
― In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“As philosopher Brendan de Kenessey puts the point: when addiction leads someone to abandon his family or lose his job, it’s not that he’s changed his values; it’s that he—the part of his mind more representative of who he is—has lost the battle to his supercharged cravings.”
― In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
― In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
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