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The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
by Brian Castner (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
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| I found this story really interesting. The author repeated himself a couple of times in weird ways, but aside from that, it was well-written and engaging. I didn't hold the NRA in high regard before, but hearing a bit about how they butted heads with...more | |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“So yes, get prepared, but don't "be first"—don't start talking about *us* and *them* already, because then you're making *them* into the *other*, and that's when the shooting starts. Far too many of the survival books I've read go there, way too early. You're becoming part of the problem; you're not the hero, you're the bad guy. It's all *us*.”
― Sam Sheridan, The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse
― Sam Sheridan, The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse
“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”
― Douglas Adams
― Douglas Adams
“You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.”
― Abigail Van Buren
― Abigail Van Buren
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