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Colin Jack is Currently Reading

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Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)

by Uketsu

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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

by Chinua Achebe

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Operation Bounce House

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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Colin Jack’s Notes & Highlights

Satantango by László Krasznahorkai

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His imagination was bewitched almost to the point of paralysis by the notion that this estate with its rich, generous soil was, only a few million years ago, covered by the sea . . . that it had alternated between sea and dry land, and ...more

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The Ship of Theseus

by Garry Harper

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Concrete

by Thomas Bernhard

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Colin Jack’s Quotes

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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