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Ron is Currently Reading

Ron Peters is currently reading

Arsène Lupin in the Teeth of the Tiger (Arsène Lupin, #10)

by Maurice Leblanc

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Ron’s Notes & Highlights

A Voice from the Attic by Robertson Davies

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Curiosity, the free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race are the marks of the clerisy, allied with a genuine love of literature, not as a manifestation of fashion, not as a substitute for life, but as one of the greatest ...more

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Ron’s Quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
― Martin Luther

tags: books

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“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

tags: capitalism, greed, growth

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“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.”
― Mark Hanna

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“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

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