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Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

by Hwang Bo-Reum

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Vigil

by George Saunders

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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

by Ellen Levine

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Chad’s Quotes

“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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“Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials. ”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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“Go dangle your withered parts over the toilet!' Ignatius screamed savagely.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: humor

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“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: humorous, ignatious-j-reilly, new-orleans

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“Hey! All you peoples draggin along here. Stop and come stick your ass on a Night of Joy stool," he started again. "Night of Joy got genuine color peoples workin below the minimal wage. Whoa! Guarantee plantation atmosphere, got cotton growin right on the stage right in front your eyeball, got a civil right worker gettin his ass beat up between show. Hey!”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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