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“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
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“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Writing isn’t a conveyer belt bearing the reader to “the point” at the end of the piece, where the meaning will be revealed. Good writing is significant everywhere, Delightful everywhere.”
― Several Short Sentences About Writing
― Several Short Sentences About Writing
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“In school you learned to write as if the reader Were in constant danger of getting lost, A problem you were taught to solve not by writing clearly But by shackling your sentences and paragraphs together. Think about transitions. Remember how it goes? Late in the paragraph you prepare for the transition to the next paragraph— The great leap over the void, across that yawning indentation. You were taught the art of the flying trapeze, But not how to write.”
― Several Short Sentences About Writing
― Several Short Sentences About Writing
Travis’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Travis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
195 books
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17 friends
1,206 books
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60 friends
253 books
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96 friends
249 books
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371 friends
25 books
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30 friends
483 books
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16 friends
53 books
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51 friends
21 books
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69 friends
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