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“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.”
― One Writer's Beginnings
― One Writer's Beginnings
“I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
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“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”
― I Know This Much Is True
― I Know This Much Is True
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Jim ’s 2025 Year in Books
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