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“I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life.” Oliver Sacks”
― Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
― Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
“Whenever I listened to his friends speak about issues like prison reform, climate change, the opioid epidemic, in the simultaneously intelligent but utterly vacuous way of people who think it's important simply to weigh in, to have an opinion, I would bristle. I would think, What is the point of all of this talk? What problems do we solve by identifying problems, circling them?”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper cut.”
― The Gifts of Reading
― The Gifts of Reading
“Every beautiful thing cracks and shatters and collapses and crumples and bleeds. If not now, it will eventually.”
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
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