Lloyd Fassett

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Lloyd’s Bookshelves

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history‎ (139)

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Lloyd’s Notes & Highlights

Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

1 note & 3 highlights

So I took the stack of pages from their hands, sat down on the floor, and began reading. A few hours later I looked up, blinking like someone emerging from a strange cavern. I had never read anything like it. This book, I was convinced, was ...more

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Lloyd’s Quotes

“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is.
And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
― Miyamoto Musashi

tags: power, ugly-truths

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“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: exploration

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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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