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Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management by Mark Forster

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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Jessie is Currently Reading

Jessie is currently reading

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

bookshelves: currently-reading, gift, classic

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(page 12 of 128)
"This demands close reading, but surely it's short enough to finish relatively quickly?! A gift from Dean sever birthdays ago." — Sep 11, 2013 12:34AM

Sep 11, 2013 12:23AM

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Ada or Ardor

by Vladimir Nabokov

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2013

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"Part 2. Still crawling through this one. Why the long complicated sentences, Vlad? Good though." — Jul 28, 2013 11:26PM

Jun 26, 2013 01:47PM

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The Pilgrimage

by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)

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May 21, 2022 01:40PM

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Jessie’s Quotes

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: love, risk

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“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

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“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: ferocity

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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