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“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
― An Enemy of the People
― An Enemy of the People
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
― Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
― Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
“It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.”
― The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
― The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.”
― Brown: The Last Discovery of America
― Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ashley’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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45 friends
440 books
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1,138 books
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246 books
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486 books
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518 books
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231 books
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361 books
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