March 2012
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“One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you...”
– Ernest Hemingway
February 2012
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“As a continued demonstration of my love for paper, I’ve recently...”
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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is...”
– Denis Waitley
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“There’s an opposite to deja vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it...”
– Anthony Bourdain
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“He is able who thinks he is able.”
– Buddha
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success...”
– Phillip Adams
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
– Mary Oliver
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace; Infinite Jest
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“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in...”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the...”
– Paulo Coelho
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2012: Book 11
Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Guttierez
I’m listing this book as one that I finished since I got through most of it, but in all honesty, I had to put it down after about 200 pages, when the author started describing a rape scene that went on for about 3 pages…. Up until that point, the book focused on the narrator’s life in Havana, Cuba, which centered around sex, rum and hustling for...
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“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha
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“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none.”
– Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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“However many holy words you read, however many holy word you speak, What good...”
– The Dhammapada
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
– Nelson Mandela
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
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“Stop your mind and the circle of thought disappears. Suddenly only your being is...”
– Osho
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“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
– Estonian Proverb
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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
– Cicero
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Here’s a book club I highly recommend!!
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“If we displayed our emotional scars like wounds from the battlefield, people...”
– PostSecret
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2012: Book 10
Love, Curiosity, Prozac and Doubts - Lucía Etxebarria
This is the story of 3 sisters living in Madrid: Ana, a married housewife addicted to prescription drugs; Rosa, a lonely and career obsessed 30 year-old; and Cristina a neurotic waitress who is addicted to ecstasy and sex. The back cover describes them as Almodovar’s Bronte sisters and, wow! does that describe them perfectly…
The plot...
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