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Alan Quays
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“She was tired and in no mood for anyone's similes but her own.”
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“In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.”
― Prisoner's Base
― Prisoner's Base
“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“She said that anything as big as the bridges over the Platte and the Missouri reconciled her. And it's what goes on in the world that reconciles me.”
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“I feel like that now: tired of the Me I've always been, tired of making the same mistakes, repetitively stumbling after the same small ego strokes, being caught in the same loops of anxiety and defensiveness. At the end of my life, I know I won't be wishing I'd held more back, been less effusive, more often stood on ceremony, forgiven less, spent more days oblivious to the secret wishes and fears of the people around me. So what is stopping me from stepping outside my habitual crap?
My mind, my limited mind.”
― The Braindead Megaphone
My mind, my limited mind.”
― The Braindead Megaphone
Alan’s 2024 Year in Books
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337 friends
685 books
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50 friends
333 books
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75 books
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104 books
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342 books
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1,205 books
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47 friends
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