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Book cover for Self-Reliance and Other Essays
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of ...more
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“If you stay alive for no reason at all, please do it for spite.”
Maria Bamford

Gregory Maguire
“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Percival Everett
“Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.”
Percival Everett

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