One of the good things about America is this: failure is not a mark of infamy. After all, to fail you must have tried. In Italy, failure— whether it's bankruptcy, dismissal, or whatever—scars your life. That's something else you should
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“While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.”
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
“Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.”
― The Tender Bar
― The Tender Bar
“It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.”
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
“I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry”
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
Antonio’s 2025 Year in Books
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