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Michael’s favorite books

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace Barrel Fever by David Sedaris How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney The Van by Roddy Doyle The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl The Longest Silence by Thomas McGuane Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky
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Michael’s Quotes

Mark Twain
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain
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George Bernard Shaw
“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw
tags: animals, attributed-no-source, friends, humor, vegetarianism
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Albert Camus
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus
tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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H.L. Mencken
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
― H.L. Mencken
tags: age, humor, old, wisdom
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