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“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Educated
― Educated
“No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”
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“Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.”
― Tenth of December
― Tenth of December
“Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and desire, for he is emitting his shout into the world's present moment and wishes to know only that.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
James’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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103 friends
259 books
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45 friends
289 books
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52 friends
381 books
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142 friends
144 books
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7,903 friends
82 books
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37 friends
1,012 books
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459 friends
921 books
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73 friends
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