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“While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.”
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
“I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry”
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
― The Tender Bar: A Memoir
“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?”
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“Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.”
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Mark’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
814 books
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26 friends
274 books
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55 friends
51 books
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12 friends
5 books
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32 friends
2 books
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45 friends
131 books
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146 friends
19 books
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299 friends
298 books
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476 friends
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