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The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse (Macmillan Collector's Library)

by Francis Turner Palgrave

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Pimsleur German Level 5 CD [Lessons 1-30]

by Paul Pimsleur

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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

by Harald Jähner

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

by David Foster Wallace

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: adventure, death, life

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