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For years he’d lived by the maxim Henry Green put so beautifully in his public-school memoir Pack My Bag: ‘The safest way to avoid trouble if one may not be going to fit is to take as great a part as possible in what is going on.’ To gain
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“A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.”
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“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
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“Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Katrina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katrina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
891 books
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116 friends
556 books
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47 friends
470 books
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80 friends
494 books
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88 friends
0 books
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27 friends
0 books
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132 friends
1 book
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9 friends
459 books
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4 friends
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