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“Any fool can get into a fight, but a wise man knows how to stay out of them.”
“Any fool can get into a fight, but a wise man knows how to stay out of them.”
“He had been angry for years about the disgraceful way the priory was run, and now he had a chance to set all those things right himself. Suddenly he was not sure he could. It was not just a question of seeing what ought to be done and ordering that it should be so. People had to be persuaded, property had to be managed, money had to be found. It was a job for a wise head. The responsibility would be heavy.”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
“He was too clever. If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old,”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“I don’t know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Well, I have to look at life uniquely now. Let’s face it. I can’t go shopping, I can’t take care of the bank accounts, I can’t take out the garbage. But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time—and the reason—to do that.” So, I said, in a reflexively cynical response, I guess the key to finding the meaning of life is to stop taking out the garbage?”
― Tuesdays with Morrie
― Tuesdays with Morrie
Ankit’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ankit’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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144 friends
84 books
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212 friends
150 books
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234 friends
1 book
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100 friends
65 books
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118 books
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117 friends
1 book
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94 friends
64 books
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171 friends
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