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Cody upstaged the fair again in July, when exposition officials rejected a request from Mayor Carter Harrison that the fair dedicate one day to the poor children of Chicago and admit them at no charge. The directors thought this was too
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“One side made the discussion about racism—looking down at the case from ten thousand feet. The other side examined each detail of each case with a magnifying glass. What was the police officer like? What did he do, precisely? One side saw a forest, but no trees. The other side saw trees and no forest.”
― Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
― Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
“How much do you trade to defeat loneliness?”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“The marsh did not confine them but defined them and, like any sacred ground, kept their secrets deep.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“If Capitalism is a disease, then it's one that eats your flesh -- and then profits from selling your bones for fertilizer, and then invests that profit to reap the cane harvest, and then sells that harvest to tourists who pay to visit your headstone.”
― A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
― A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
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