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“A man can lose his life falling off a mountain or falling off a hill. In the end it will not matter how he died, but how he lived. The important thing is to grab the life you can and make the most of it. - Gold Mountain”
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“I don’t think of myself as a writer. I’m troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I have dead friends, friends in prison, friends who are prostitutes, on drugs, drunk, married to shitty men. I write because I need to write, to make sense of life. Honesty is everything to me.”
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“But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.”
― Stolen
― Stolen
“What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.”
― The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
― The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
“I tell it like it is, from real experience. I want to tell people that freedom is great, but that it can also be dangerous.”
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Marissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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