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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
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“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
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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.”
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Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,737 books
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216 friends
7,987 books
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8 friends
3,703 books
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4,240 friends
1,606 books
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62 friends
1,714 books
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151 friends
845 books
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246 friends
415 books
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56 friends
1,829 books
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272 friends
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