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If you tell someone your parent is an alcoholic or an addict, they seemingly, on some level, get that you had a rough childhood. You don’t need to expand for hours, trying to prove your case like a lawyer with the odds stacked against him.
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
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Whitney’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Whitney’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
846 books
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179 friends
1,057 books
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77 friends
1,331 books
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9,811 friends
338 books
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56 friends
108 books
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9 friends
4,449 books
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74 friends
37 books
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2 friends
0 books
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84 friends
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