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On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners I learned “Lie down,” “Shut up,” and “Who shit on this carpet?” The couple across the road taught me to ask questions
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“I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.”
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“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
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“So many books, so little time.”
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“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
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“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.”
― Annie Hall: Screenplay
― Annie Hall: Screenplay
John’s 2025 Year in Books
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275 books
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10 friends
2,654 books
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94 friends
754 books
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14 friends
25 books
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258 friends
226 books
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11 friends
174 books
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117 friends
207 books
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7 friends
236 books
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41 friends
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