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“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
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“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
Leslie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Leslie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
924 books
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40 friends
76 books
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32 friends
797 books
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70 friends
1,245 books
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123 friends
338 books
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123 friends
45 books
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37 friends
137 books
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41 friends
5 books
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43 friends
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