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Suzanne said:
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I won this ARC in a Goodreads giveaway - thank you Algonquin Publishing -- and have just finished a second reading to get my thoughts in order. I actually enjoyed it more the second time, the sure sign of a good book, and would give it a strong 4 at
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“And maybe that was love. The body’s chemical reaction to finding a person who irritates you less than everyone else.”
― As Long as We Both Shall Live
― As Long as We Both Shall Live
“Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.”
― Close Range: Wyoming Stories
― Close Range: Wyoming Stories
“In the end, though, freedom depends upon citizens who are able to make a distinction between what is true and what they want to hear. Authoritarianism arrives not because people say that they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts and desires.”
― The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
― The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads.”
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
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