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This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History

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Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4) by Terry Pratchett

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But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplow driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spellings of the words.

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“But by reading their books, I saw the other side of them - their humanity. Somehow I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth.”
― Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing

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“I believe in every possible manifestation of spiritual strangeness. I believe in all possible escapes. The only thing I cannot endure is reality, whatever it may be. I believe that the writer is defined by the constant necessity of creating a world, to depart from this world. Literature is more concerned with misery than with happiness. Writing is directly related to frustration. It is a reflection of personal desperation. The writer is profoundly disgusted with his reality.”
― Paul Theroux, On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey – A Humanizing Exploration of the US-Mexico Border, Immigration Debate, and the Layered World of a Region in Conflict

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