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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

by Hannah Arendt

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In Search of Expo 67

by Monika Kin Gagnon

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Part of a Complete Breakfast: Cereal Characters of the Baby Boom Era

by Tim Hollis

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“When women respond negatively to misogynistic or rape humor, they are "sensitive" and branded as "feminist," a word that has, as of late, become a catchall term for "woman who does not tolerate bullshit.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

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“I planted him in this country
like a flag”
― Margaret Atwood , The Journals of Susanna Moodie

tags: death, immigrant

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“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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“Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land.”
― Timothy Findley, The Wars

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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, narrator, the-great-gatsby

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