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Ed Smith
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.”
― The Art of Being
― The Art of Being
“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
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Ed’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ed’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
358 books
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60 friends
352 books
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53 friends
141 books
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33 friends
733 books
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1,090 books
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555 books
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78 books
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241 books
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Book Club, Business, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, Travel, and Young-adult
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