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Ann is Currently Reading

Ann is currently reading

The Art of Legend (War Arts, #3)

by Wesley Chu (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: series, wuxia, audiobook, currently-reading

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Jan 27, 2026 11:44AM

“There is nothing better than to be headed into the mountains on a clean fresh day with the sun rising through the trees and good company and good talk and the sense of ease that comes from the knowledge that you are in somebody else's car and it is not your transmission that is going to get torn out on a big rock.”
― Patrick Mcmanus, They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?

tags: camping, comedy, humor

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“Even indoors, it seems that we should be wearing raincoats, that we need protection from all that we're up against.”
― Yuvi Zalkow, A Brilliant Novel in the Works

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“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

tags: analogy, inspiration, machine, thought-provoking, usefulness

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“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: patience, perseverance

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“It's as absurd to expect a life to have meaning, in contrast to the vastness of the Universe, as it is absurd to take off your shoe and hang it from a tree, but both are wonderful in their way—for I assure you, if you could see that tree, you’d think it wonderful, you’d approve, you’d think that in a wacko way something had been done, something worth doing.”
― Michael Ventura, If I Was a Highway

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