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Average rating: 3.29 · 1,656 ratings · 358 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
The Optimistic Decade

3.29 avg rating — 958 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions
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The Emilys

3.26 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions
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Gut Instincts: Dispatches f...

3.43 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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“One had to at all times remain free of the delusion that anybody was who you believed them to be.”
― Heather Abel, The Optimistic Decade

“They were also, at times, rude and contemptuous and know-it-alls, copping a rhetorical style that was beginning to characterize communication all the wide web over.”
― Heather Abel, Gut Instincts: Dispatches from the Wide Open Space Between Sickness and Health

“Over the years, Caleb had learned that if you invited them the right way, people generally acted how you wanted them to act. If you made sure to invite them into something grand and purposeful. If you told a compelling and urgent story into which they could enter. If you gave them a role, a small but crucial part.”
― Heather Abel, Optimistic Decade

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