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"Very good. Compelling real life case histories." Mar 07, 2019 11:39AM

 
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"So interesting. Taking a long time to read because the story spawns for me a lot of daydreams of what it would be like to live in Iran." Mar 07, 2019 11:34AM

 
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Philip Roth
“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
Philip Roth

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde

Noam Chomsky
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

Leo Tolstoy
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
Leo Tolstoy

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