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Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)

by John Leland

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This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

by Charles E. Cobb Jr.

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James’s Notes & Highlights

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

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a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure, offset by a longing to crawl into the pouch of some benevolent kangaroo who would take me bounding, protected, through life.

The Disenchantments

by Nina LaCour

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James’s Quotes

“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

tags: friendship, kinship, listening, risk, sharing, trust, vulnerability

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“Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.”
― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir

tags: humanity

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“I wake up scared and I'm scared all day. I'm scared of being scared. Scared of "losing it". Scared of not being able to function. Scared of being hospitalized. Scared that I am not okay. Scared of what life is and if I am wasting mine. Scared that I have no home - that even the place I call home has no bottom to it and I will just keep falling under and under and under.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

tags: anxiety, depression, mental-illness

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“I’m beginning to think I feel too much. The feelings flood into me like so much water, and I am helpless against the onslaught.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

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“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

tags: culture, feminism, gender-equality, humanity, women

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