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Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace

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Jul 07, 2025 02:03PM

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This Is Body Grief: Making Peace with the Loss That Comes with Living in a Body

by Jayne Mattingly

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Tagalog Picture Dictionary: Learn 1,500 Tagalog Words and Expressions - The Perfect Resource for Visual Learners of All Ages (Includes Online Audio) (Tuttle Picture Dictionary Book 4)

by Jan Tristan Gaspi

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Holly’s Notes & Highlights

How to Win at Travel by Brian Kelly

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The chances of you dying on a commercial airplane are roughly 1 in 13.7 million, whereas your chances of dying on the road are 1 in 5,000.2

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Holly’s Quotes

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

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“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: creative-process, failure, motivational, persistence, writing

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