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“I believe having a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially”
― Donna Tartt

tags: donna-tartt, knowledge, the-secret-history

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“Roland G. Fryer Jr., while discussing his names research on a radio show, took a call from a black woman who was upset with the name just given to her baby niece. It was pronounced shuh-TEED but was in fact spelled “Shithead.”*”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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“... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.”
― Diane Setterfield

tags: death-and-dying, grief, quotes

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“Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“Don’t you fucking see!” he roared. “I hate myself, I hate this fucking body! I want to fucking die and Mercy,” he gasped. “Mercy taught me… how to live. God, I need her back,” he finished in a hoarse voice that shattered Mercy. “I don’t know how to live without her!”
― Lucian Bane, The Mercy Trilogy

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