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“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
― Chuck Close
― Chuck Close
“I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.”
― Napoleon: A Life
― Napoleon: A Life
“When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“As to liquid, my rule is drink no liquid that is not at least a thousand years old—so its fitness has been tested. I drink just wine, water, and coffee. No soft drinks. Perhaps the most possibly deceitfully noxious drink is the orange juice we make poor innocent people imbibe at the breakfast table while, thanks to marketing, we convince them it is “healthy.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
KL Book Appreciation Club
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— last activity Feb 05, 2019 11:24AM
Welcome to The KL Book Appreciation Club (KLBAC). If you are a Book Lover, Seeker, Collector, Admirer or Appreciator in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, do join ...more
Izwan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Izwan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
229 books
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89 friends
1,246 books
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4,999 friends
1,492 books
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216 friends
1,746 books
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132 friends
649 books
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59 friends
4,227 books
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2,327 friends
630 books
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22 friends
117 books
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104 friends
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Favorite Genres
Book Club, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Science, Self help, Spirituality, Sports, and finance
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