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“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”
― All Over But the Shoutin'
― All Over But the Shoutin'
“it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.”
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“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― The Spectator Bird
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― The Spectator Bird
“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”
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Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
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