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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Human invented language to satisfy the need to complain.

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"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

2024 Reading Goal

YTD: 8 Books Read & 56 Hours Spent GOAL: 100 Books Read & 1500 Hours Spent

2023 Reading Goal

FINAL: 263 Books Read & 2196 Hours Spent GOAL: 100 Books Read & 1500 Hours Spent

2022 Reading Goal

FINAL: 252 Books Read & 2315 Hours Spent GOAL: 100 Books Read & 1500 Hours Spent

Bookish Quotes

"A bit of good trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. " (Phyllis McGinley, author)

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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Human invented language to satisfy the need to complain.

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