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Scuba Confidential - An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver

by Simon Pridmore (Goodreads Author)

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Matthew’s Quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, By-Line: Ernest Hemingway - Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

tags: bicycle, cycling

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“An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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“Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.”
― Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing

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“He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: books

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