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Matt is Currently Reading

Matt Brady is currently reading

The Shadow Saint (The Black Iron Legacy, #2)

by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 01, 2022 05:04AM

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Toll The Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)

by Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 01, 2022 05:03AM

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King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

by Janet L. Nelson

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Nov 17, 2021 02:08AM

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Matt’s Quotes

“There it is.”
― Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn

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“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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“Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: adversity, childhood-neglect, endurance, survival

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“Shut up,' he explained.”
― Ring Lardner

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“When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

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