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“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”
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“There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence. ”
― Pleasures of a Nonconformist
― Pleasures of a Nonconformist
“And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted”
― The Importance of Living
― The Importance of Living
“Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.”
― The Importance of Living
― The Importance of Living
“In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.”
― The Importance of Living
― The Importance of Living
Bassy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bassy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Comics, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Travel, and Young-adult
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