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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
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| You guuyysss, I hate to travel. Not just like the process of being on a plane or train and smelling that recycled air and being told that I have to turn off my Nook like I'm an infant (though I do, in fact, hate those things), I hate being in places...more | |
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| Repetitive, but intelligent. I have little patience for children who demand that their parents make them separate meals, and even less patience for parents who comply. I began to see my toddlers developing some pickiness and decided to nip it in the...more | |
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“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.”
― E.M. Forster
― E.M. Forster
“Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.”
― Winston Churchill
― Winston Churchill
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― Homer, The Odyssey
that we devise their misery. But they
themselves- in their depravity- design
grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
― Homer, The Odyssey
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