Travis Burnham
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The title says it all: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive It's a meditation on the passage of time and the inevitability of change. If this quote from the beginning of the book doesn't engage you, then just mov ...more |
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10 out of 5 stars It seems that, much to my surprise, not everyone loved this book. I. LOVED. This. Book. Perhaps it's not perfect, but it was perfect for me. I listened on audio, which I was doubly surprised that 1) others listened to it and didn't en ...more |
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Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100
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“Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns?
Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you?
Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way.
Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?”
― Zombies Vs. Unicorns
Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you?
Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way.
Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?”
― Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
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“But now when I think about that night, I think about something my stepdad once said when my mom yelled at him for quitting AA. He just told her in this sad, quiet voice, "Sometimes the sickest part of me just seems like the truest part.”
― The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
― The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America


















































