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“That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“You may be whatever you resolve to be.”
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“The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part of the present, it is a comfort, a guide, a lesson.”
― Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory
― Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory
“It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.”
― Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory
― Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory
Chad’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chad’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
50 books
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73 friends
122 books
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31 friends
530 books
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68 friends
440 books
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72 friends
37 books
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67 friends
111 books
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122 friends
224 books
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23 friends
1 book
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46 friends
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