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Joshua Ferris
“For all our penny-wisdom,’” he said, “‘for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.”
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End

Matt Taibbi
“Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.”
Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

Joshua Ferris
“We all knew there was a good deal of pointlessness to nearly all the meetings and in fact one meeting out of every three or four was nearly perfectly without gain or purpose but many meetings revealed the one thing that was necessary and so we attended them and afterward we thanked each other.”
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End

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881 books | 244 friends

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1,289 books | 101 friends

Juan
3,309 books | 90 friends

Brian
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136 books | 29 friends

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53 books | 39 friends

Lauren
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