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Girl at War

by Sara Nović (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2016

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Apr 24, 2016 05:12AM

“The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: bank, capitalism, ownership

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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