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Ryan Ballard’s favorite books

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer Love and Saint Augustine by Hannah Arendt The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt Sweet Ruin by Tony Hoagland Trouble in Mind by Lucie Brock-Broido Averno by Louise Glück The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
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Ryan Ballard’s Quotes

John Green
“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
tags: adulthood, aging, growing-up, selfhood
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Chick-lit, Erotica, Fiction, Historical fiction, Music, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Science fiction, and Travel


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