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“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.”
― Thérèse
― Thérèse
“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
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“As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.”
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Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,889 books
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719 friends
346 books
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1,334 friends
225 books
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35 friends
410 books
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557 friends
188 books
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1,464 friends
3,770 books
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3,475 friends
296 books
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144 friends
1,138 books
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186 friends
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