Amor Towles - Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 48...

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Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

Amor Towles

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Angenommen, ich lebte bis zum 80. Lebensjahr und las ein Buch ernsthaft im Monat. Das bedeutet, ich habe mir 480 Bücher in meinem Leben angesehen. Wenn ich nur noch 480 übrig hätte, wollte ich aufhören, durch das Material zu blättern, in das ich kein Vertrauen hatte, und meine Aufmerksamkeit denjenigen zuzuwenden, von denen ich weiß, dass sie sie gelesen haben.

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