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

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

tags: books

1043 likes

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

tags: love

5431 likes

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

tags: culture, reading

11698 likes

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

3664 likes

“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

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