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The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer

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The Slynx

by Tatyana Tolstaya

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The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

by John Michael Greer

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Dead Harvest (The Collector, #1)

by Chris F. Holm

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Leslie’s Quotes

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
― Carrie Fisher

tags: envy, jealousy, resentment, spite

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“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

tags: mind, new-ideas

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“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
― Pablo Picasso

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“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

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