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fired their muskets so often that they had to use their own urine to cool the barrels, to keep them from exploding when loaded with gunpowder.
“They were missing teeth and spitting tobacco juice right on the floor—and you should have seen the men!”
― Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler
― Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler
“For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it; but he gave way with a tolerable show of civility”
― Master and Commander
― Master and Commander
“the blond absence of any program except last and always and first to live makes unimportant what i and you believe;”
― 100 Selected Poems
― 100 Selected Poems
“The unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism, and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking have allowed us to guess at the origins of the cosmos. But how much more addictive is the familiar old garbage about tribe and nation and faith.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
Alek’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alek’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Business, Classics, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Suspense, Thriller, and Travel
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