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Sharon is Currently Reading

Sharon is currently reading

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History

by Norman Mailer

bookshelves: currently-reading, 20th-century, history, non-fiction, pulitzer-and-nobel-winners

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Jun 11, 2025 01:39PM

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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

by Daniel Kahneman

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Sharon’s Quotes

“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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