Alex

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Alex is Currently Reading

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The Sandman (Sandman #1)

by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2026, 20th-century, author-male, english, graphic-novel, currently-reading

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Gai-Jin (The Asian Saga)

by James Clavell

bookshelves: 2026, 20th-century, author-male, english, currently-reading

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Jan 03, 2026 06:09AM

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Cider With Rosie

by Laurie Lee

bookshelves: 2025, 20th-century, boxall-s-1001, english, gift, currently-reading, 2026, author-male

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“Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.

Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

tags: advice-for-daily-living, carpe-diem, how-to-live, live-in-the-moment

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“What ho!" I said.
"What ho!" said Motty.
"What ho! What ho!"
"What ho! What ho! What ho!"
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.”
― Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

tags: conversation, humor, humour

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“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King

tags: laugh, life, religion, weep

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