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Eric is Currently Reading

Eric is currently reading

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon, #6)

by Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Eric’s Quotes

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: love, self-sacrifice

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: loneliness, people, scared, world

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“My father called swimming “the elixir of life,” and certainly it seemed to be so for him: he swam daily, slowing down only slightly with time, until the grand age of ninety-four. I hope I can follow him, and swim till I die.”
― Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

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