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The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

by Adam Moss

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An Ermine in Czernopol (New York Review Books Classics)

by Gregor von Rezzori

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By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer

by Victor Ostrovsky

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Their din—feral and ungovernable as they were, sounding off from every corner of the farm at every hour of the day, and driving Emmett to empty threats of execution—was her constant companion, and in its absence stretched a stillness so ...more

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“Any of us who have raised children know, as John F. Kennedy once said, that “to have children is to give hostages to fate.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

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“Yet, in reality, Ted loved things more than he loved people. He could find life in an abandoned bicycle or an old car, and feel a kind of compassion for these inanimate objects, more compassion than he could ever feel for another human being.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story

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“The past is never there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for exactly what it is. History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.”
― John Berger

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“Myth, the smoke of history, is seen to signal new and more relevant meanings when espied from the distance of later millennia.”
― John Keay, India: A History

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“The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

tags: god, life

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