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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live ... by Dave Eggers

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Wild Life

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Caesar's Women (Masters of Rome, #4)

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Dave’s Quotes

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

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“People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

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“You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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“...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

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“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

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