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“Live like you are going to die tomorrow - Learn like you are going to live forever!”
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“Many people don’t realize Armstrong’s young daughter died of cancer seven years before his moon landing. To me, his observation seems tinged with that loss. I imagine that when Armstrong looked at the earth, he thought of her.”
― The Immortal King Rao
― The Immortal King Rao
“The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.”
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“A friend sends me a line from my novel: 'Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.' How odd to find it so exquisitely painful to read my own words.”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“This is not mysticism, but identification; man, building this greatest and most personal of all tools, has in turn received a boat-shaped mind, and the boat, a man-shaped soul. His spirit and the tendrils of his feeling are so deep in a boat that the identification is complete. It is very easy to see why the Viking wished his body to sail away in an unmanned ship, for neither could exist without the other; or, failing that, how it was necessary that the things he loved most, his women and his ship, lie with him and thus keep closed the circle. In the great fire on the shore, all three started at least in the same direction, and in the gathered ashes who could say where man or woman stopped and ship began?”
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez
John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Business, Chick-lit, Comics, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, and Travel
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