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“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
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“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
Jami’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jami’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
503 books
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55 friends
305 books
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74 friends
657 books
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311 friends
665 books
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50 friends
278 books
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127 friends
64 books
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83 friends
138 books
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199 friends
102 books
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114 friends
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