Jason Cook

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Jason’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (3)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (419)
reading-soon‎ (0)
general-literary-fiction‎ (133)
2009-reads‎ (62)
2010-reads‎ (61)
2013-reads‎ (40)
2017-reads‎ (40)
science-fiction‎ (40)
humor‎ (39)
2015-reads‎ (36)

books-i-love‎ (36)
horror‎ (32)
nonfiction‎ (30)
fantasy‎ (29)
memoir‎ (29)
2008-reads‎ (26)
television‎ (26)
mystery‎ (25)
2016-reads‎ (20)
2019-reads‎ (19)
read-when-i-was-a-kid‎ (15)
read-when-i-was-a-teen‎ (15)

2021-reads‎ (13)
children-of-all-ages‎ (13)
read-when-i-was-in-my-early-20s‎ (10)
young-adult-fiction‎ (9)
doctor-who‎ (7)
japanese‎ (7)
history‎ (6)
beatles‎ (5)
british‎ (5)
2018-reads‎ (4)
film‎ (4)
audiobook‎ (3)

july-2017-one-word-title-challenge‎ (3)
psychology‎ (3)
august-2017-crazy-eights-challenge‎ (2)
college-lit-classes‎ (2)
historical-fiction‎ (2)
kindle‎ (2)
poetry‎ (2)
abandoned‎ (1)
native-american‎ (1)
portuguese‎ (1)
september-2017-back-to-school-chall‎ (1)
swedish‎ (1)

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Jason’s Quotes

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: fear, hate, pain

3203 likes

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
― Hermann Hesse

tags: books

1047 likes

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

11734 likes

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

49912 likes

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21432 likes

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