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Jeevitha Balakrishnan
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revolted against their own homegrown tyrant, Muammar el-Qaddafi.
“We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.”
― The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
― The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress
“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
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“My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins. This is what it is to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
“Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.”
― The Sea Around Us
― The Sea Around Us
Jeevitha’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jeevitha’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Business, Cookbooks, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Self help, Travel, literature, and environment
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