Dan
https://www.goodreads.com/seakayaker
“In order to live a creative life, we must give up the fear of being
wrong.”
―
wrong.”
―
“The American Crisis
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”
― The Crisis
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”
― The Crisis
“However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.”
―
―
“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
― Summer in Algiers
― Summer in Algiers
Dan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Polls voted on by Dan
Lists liked by Dan




















