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“High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese”
― It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
― It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a along with other realities-never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
Atika’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Atika’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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163 friends
110 books
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371 friends
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209 friends
102 books
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147 friends
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469 friends
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1,174 friends
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181 friends
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Art, Biography, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, and Spirituality
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