the-common-book

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“Success is the greatest impediment to future success”

- Luke Kuechly, 1/18/2024

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“Situations make more careers than talent”

- Greg Olsen, 1/18/2024

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“Laugh and play, the rest can wait”

- Sign I saw on the side of the road, 2024

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“A time comes where you’re not chasing milestones, just enjoying the life you made”

- Miles McKenna, 1/16/24

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“When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one.  It is like surrendering a part of them.  I have grown to love secrecy.  It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us.  The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”

~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[the-common-book]

On chapter two of annotating “the picture of Dorian Gray” and I’ve written gay in the margins at least at twice

the best thing to do with classic lit is make it as homoerotic as possible

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I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat,

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray