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“Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.”
― The Recognitions
― The Recognitions
“where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior”
― A Frolic of His Own
― A Frolic of His Own
“...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left”
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“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.
Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
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Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
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“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts .... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must be entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood, as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.”
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Josiah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Josiah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
28 books
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40 friends
114 books
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84 friends
571 books
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91 friends
260 books
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205 friends
240 books
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54 friends
280 books
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134 friends
405 books
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9 friends
124 books
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28 friends
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Book Club, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Cooking, Ebooks, Fiction, Food, History, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science, and War
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