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“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“It’s awful being a child,” she said, simply, “at the mercy of other people.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“Alba, leaning against me like cold cooked pasta”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
“The story (...) suggests that we can't help caring about the traditions of "the West" because they are ours: in fact, the opposite is true. They are only ours if we care about them. A culture of liberty, tolerance, and rational inquiry: that *would* be a good idea. But these values represent choices to make, not tracks laid down by a Western destiny.”
― The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
― The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
“There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.”
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Vincent’s 2025 Year in Books
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40 friends
1,805 books
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715 books
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567 books
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477 books
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345 books
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561 books
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138 books
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