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Besides, La Jollans were so accustomed to hyperinflated prices that they had lost all sense of what things should cost. They were like people permanently stuck in an airport (“Four dollars for a Twix? Why not?”). In La Jolla, money was God:
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“A person should have as our goal complete agape (self-sacrificial love). The most we can expect from a society is to institute simple justice.”
― Faith: A Journey for All
― Faith: A Journey for All
“Working on novels, he reaffirmed his belief that nothing important could really be explained; it could only be experienced in the daily clutter of stuff that fiction was so good at cataloguing. [re: Larry McMurtry]”
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
“Since a good behavior change strategy must be able to succeed in the worst circumstances, it’s best to design a strategy that works in low willpower situations.”
― Mini Habits for Weight Loss: Stop Dieting. Form New Habits. Change Your Lifestyle Without Suffering.
― Mini Habits for Weight Loss: Stop Dieting. Form New Habits. Change Your Lifestyle Without Suffering.
“our emotional experience remains largely unexplored, and therein lie the dramas, poems, and novels." [Larry McMurtry]”
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
“We cannot know what others are thinking, or what might happen in the future: we can only hypothesize, and the more we are able to hold multiple hypotheses in mind, the more readily we engage with others without becoming overwhelmed.”
― Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
― Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
Rini’s 2025 Year in Books
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