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She was fourteen and he was thirty-two, and this was the first and only meeting of these two remarkable monarchs. Both would eventually be accorded the title “the Great.” And between them, for decades, they would dominate the history of
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“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”
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“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
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“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just like people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”
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“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
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Andrew’s 2025 Year in Books
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982 books
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388 books
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270 books
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157 books
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87 books
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48 books
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