While packing away some of his treasured books, Danny had come across a tattered relic of his youth – his ‘Pithies Notebook’, as he’d called it. Filled front to back with quotes he’d amassed from the world’s greatest thinkers, it was an impassioned and earnest attempt to live the best life he could. What did Aristotle have to offer on living life to its fullest? Emerson? Jean-Paul Sartre or Camus? Enamored by their ideas, leafing through the notebook was like taking a trip back in time. Danny was transported to what he’d once been: a college student quoting French with a cigarette dangling from his lips, a hopeful young man searching for his place in the world, a best friend grappling with the reality that our lives move too quickly sometimes. After years of searching, he found his last entry, the words of Reinhold Niebuhr, and finally resolved to find his own way. Now, from the vantage point of his eighth decade, Danny revisits the wisdom he relished in his youth, curious as ever to test the value of each aphorism after a life lived, and keen to live out his last years the best he can. In these pages, our favorite witty philosopher tackles life’s biggest questions, leaving us chuckling and enlightened.
- 5.03” W x 7.02” H x 0.61” D
- Written by Daniel Klein
- Publisher: Random House
- 224 pages






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