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Candi is Currently Reading

Candi is currently reading

The Memory of Old Jack: A Novel (Port William)

by Wendell Berry

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The Peregrine

by J.A. Baker

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Candi’s Quotes

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

tags: books, readers, reading

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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