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Jake Gest

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Everything is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 16, 2019 05:36PM

Jake’s Quotes

“Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?”
― Walter Scott, Redgauntlet

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“Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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“Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn’t mean it has to be bad. Even if it’s something you are sure you would never have chosen in a hundred years. ‘Better ten days of love than years of regretting,’ ” she quoted.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

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“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: congratulations, encourage, encouraging, succeed, success

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“I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?”
― Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

tags: hope

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