Ben Long

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Ben is Currently Reading

Ben Long is currently reading

Reviving Mission: Awakening to the Everyday Movement of God

by Linson Daniel (Goodreads Author)

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May 01, 2026 01:41PM

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Crom Cruach

by Valkyrie Loughcrewe

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Ben’s Notes & Highlights

Dust by Chris Miller

5 highlights

I suppose I’ll be on my way now. I got gods to kill.”

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Ben’s Quotes

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk

3842 likes

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

16952 likes

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

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