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An unread book is just a block of paper.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  2. A series of scenes put in a particular order designed to leave the viewer with no choice but to feel one particular way.
  3. Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in th…
  4. At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
  5. Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
  6. Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.
  7. I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!
  8. First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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  • learning
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