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‘You know what the McDonald’s girl said to me, in a completely empty restaurant, when I asked for thirty hamburgers and thirty orders of fries?’ ‘What?’ ‘What they always say – “Is this to eat here or to go?”’
“Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
― Dune
― Dune
“You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, as surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function.
How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.”
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How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.”
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“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Dune
― Dune
“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
― Dune
― Dune
“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”
― Dune
― Dune
Will’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Will’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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491 friends
102 books
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8 friends
515 books
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128 friends
139 books
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54 friends
45 books
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2 friends
191 books
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666 books
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36 friends
1,248 books
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99 friends
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