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Frank is Currently Reading

Frank Formica is currently reading

There There

by Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author)

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To Paradise

by Hanya Yanagihara (Goodreads Author)

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A Brief History of Seven Killings

by Marlon James

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Frank’s Quotes

“Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

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“Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

tags: context, memory

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“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

tags: life, meaningful, philosophical, realistic

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“And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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“The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

tags: fate, happenstance, luck, need, privilege

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