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“To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is. And you should know what your myth is because it might be a tragedy and maybe you dont want it to be.”
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“Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests”
― What Is History?
― What Is History?
Duncan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Duncan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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11 friends
1,981 books
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1,680 friends
371 books
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39 friends
397 books
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52 friends
558 books
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20 friends
395 books
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19 friends
935 books
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37 friends
503 books
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47 friends
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