“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
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“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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“To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.”
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“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
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Susannah’s 2025 Year in Books
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