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“You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same," I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.”
― Dead Harvest
― Dead Harvest
“If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.”
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“How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
Kim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
620 books
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28 friends
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9 friends
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