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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
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Alex’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
413 books
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68 friends
461 books
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294 friends
979 books
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126 friends
803 books
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465 friends
95 books
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9 friends
765 books
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25 friends
847 books
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13 friends
111 books
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4 friends
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