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So perhaps it’s not ten thousand hours of practice that counts; maybe it’s ten thousand hours of consumption. Prince and Dickens (and Questlove, whose talents and accomplishments are startling) didn’t just enjoy their stuff, their plays and
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
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“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
Andrea ’s 2025 Year in Books
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