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Since we can’t influence the creation of our lives, and their end is unavoidable, perhaps we should be focusing on what we can regulate: our expectations of the distance between them. Perhaps it is this we should be trying to manage more
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“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
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“Harlem
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?”
― The Collected Poems
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?”
― The Collected Poems
Emily Joy’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily Joy’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
311 books
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19 friends
1,930 books
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45 friends
419 books
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451 books
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103 books
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796 books
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395 books
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536 books
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