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"I'm having trouble continuing to read this. It is a lot wordier than I expected and the story is progressing slowly.
I think I'll put it on hold for a while." — Apr 10, 2016 07:41AM
"I'm having trouble continuing to read this. It is a lot wordier than I expected and the story is progressing slowly.
I think I'll put it on hold for a while." — Apr 10, 2016 07:41AM
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"First story down. I hear the others in this book are better than the first which I look forward to. Not that I didn't like the first story, but i'm glad it ended when it did...much more and I might have switched off." — Oct 08, 2014 10:08PM
"First story down. I hear the others in this book are better than the first which I look forward to. Not that I didn't like the first story, but i'm glad it ended when it did...much more and I might have switched off." — Oct 08, 2014 10:08PM
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""It is a temporary preservative, like the nitrites in your sausages. Eventually any meat, regardless of what you do to it, will either and go off."" — Sep 11, 2014 08:03AM
""It is a temporary preservative, like the nitrites in your sausages. Eventually any meat, regardless of what you do to it, will either and go off."" — Sep 11, 2014 08:03AM
“Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
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“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
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“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“One can only guess what talented people like the crew of Challenger might have done had they returned to earth alive. Yet, even their loss has inspired thousands of others to carry on for them in meaningful ways we will never fully know. They have not been lost to the world. They made it a better place.”
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