Category: Book Review: Non-Fiction
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How To Drink Wine
“What’s the difference between red and white? How do I know what to buy in a shop? Am I holding my glass correctly?”
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Priestdaddy
“Who would I be if I hadn’t been frightened? What hurt me, and what would I be if it hadn’t?”
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Is This OK?
“I’ve always been told that most people are too inward-looking to judge anyone else’s actions. […] The tragic truth is that I am always thinking about someone else.”
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I’m In Seattle, Where Are You?
“People devote more effort to correcting the errors of the past than they do to improving the future.”
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Scrappy Little Nobody
“I gave up on being nice. I started putting more value on other qualities instead: passion, bravery, intelligence, practicality, humour, patience, fairness, sensitivity.”
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The Invisible Gorilla
“We easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we understand and can explain things that we really know very little about.”
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Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
“The hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, the conditions are terrible; you’re underappreciated, unsupported, disrespected and frequently physically endangered. But there’s no better job in the world.
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Happy People Are Annoying
“You’ll probably get what you wanted, but by then you won’t want it anymore.”
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