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Benjamin is Currently Reading

Benjamin is currently reading

The Ferryman

by Justin Cronin (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 05, 2023 03:31PM

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The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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read in November 2012

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Night Shift

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Benjamin’s Quotes

“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
― David Brin, Brightness Reef

tags: science

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“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”
― Nancy Kress, Probability Moon

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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
― Edwin Hubble

tags: exploration, inquiry, science

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“Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

tags: books, story-telling, storytelling

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