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“Best place in the whole damn world!” he bellowed once. “Know why? Know why, toad?” Spikely did not, so Jim seized a crayon and drew a globe. To the west, America, he said, full of greedy fools fouling up their inheritance. To the east,
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“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
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“I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
― Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.”
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“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Remote’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Remote’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
21 books
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1 friend
4 books
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10 friends
371 books
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155 friends
252 books
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16 friends
923 books
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242 friends
116 books
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145 friends
136 books
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158 friends
98 books
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134 friends
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