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The Backyard Bird Chronicles contains excerpts from hundreds of pages gleaned from nine personal journals filled with sketches and handwritten notes of naive observations of birds in my backyard. I humorously titled the journals The
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“But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.”
― The First Confessor
― The First Confessor
“Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.”
― The Red Pyramid
― The Red Pyramid
“Sure, intellectually, she knew that pacifism was the superior way of life. The problem was that it was a lot like communism in that it was only perfect on paper. Put it in the real world and things fell apart fast because it depended on the good will and behavior of people for it to work.”
― Homeworld
― Homeworld
“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
― Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.”
― The First Confessor
― The First Confessor
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Matthew’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Matthew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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