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“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
― The World of Yesterday
― The World of Yesterday
“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”
― The Pursuit of Happiness
― The Pursuit of Happiness
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Read a verse of Homer and you can walk the walls of Troy alongside Hector; fall into a paragraph by Fitzgerald and your Now entangles with Gatsby’s Now; open a 1953 book by Ray Bradbury and go hunting T. rexes. Ursula Le Guin said: “Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time,” and she’s right, of course. The shelves of every library in the world brim with time machines. Step into one, and off you go.”
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Jules’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jules’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Crime, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Science, Suspense, Thriller, and Travel
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