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Andre Taban
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by Mario Puzo
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Andre Taban
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by Ted Chiang
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short-stories
progress:
(page 270 of 339)
"I really have to finish this book. Only one chapter remaining!" — Nov 04, 2024 09:10AM
"I really have to finish this book. Only one chapter remaining!" — Nov 04, 2024 09:10AM
progress:
(page 83 of 573)
"While Chapter 1 is a bit redundant in proving that Imelda embezzled public funds--making such chapter boring, IMO--Chapter 2 tackles a history of extravagance dating back from the Spanish colonial era. The analogy is, in a way, off-tangent and perhaps non-sequitor, IMO. But, unlike Chapter 1, this chapter is interesting as this aspect of Philippine history was not discussed in my history classes." — Nov 04, 2024 09:10AM
"While Chapter 1 is a bit redundant in proving that Imelda embezzled public funds--making such chapter boring, IMO--Chapter 2 tackles a history of extravagance dating back from the Spanish colonial era. The analogy is, in a way, off-tangent and perhaps non-sequitor, IMO. But, unlike Chapter 1, this chapter is interesting as this aspect of Philippine history was not discussed in my history classes." — Nov 04, 2024 09:10AM
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.”
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“Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
― The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
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