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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
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“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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Luke’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Luke’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
638 books
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22 friends
216 books
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11 friends
476 books
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26 friends
162 books
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65 friends
108 books
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48 friends
94 books
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13 friends
300 books
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7 friends
1,257 books
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16 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Philosophy, Science, and Spirituality
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