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Sara is Currently Reading

Sara is currently reading

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

by Heather Cox Richardson

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Jul 06, 2026 08:57PM

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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

by Rashid Khalidi

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Oct 15, 2025 09:30PM

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Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco Vanzetti Case

by Upton Sinclair

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Sara’s Quotes

“Hey, Serge, I just realized that 'slow up' and 'slow down' mean the same thing. That's fucked.”
― Tim Dorsey, Naked Came the Florida Man: A Novel

tags: stoned

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“Patterns hold us in place, give us identity. And patterns are a kind of freedom, because if all the little motions of life vary each time, they require thought.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Turquoise Lament

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“When language and thought atrophy, when complexity wanes and everything becomes more and more the same, we run great risks in society politic-- whether from extremists in a religion or a political organization or, less obviously, from advertisers.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf, Harper

tags: readordie

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“He based these anecdotes largely on stories he'd read in unverified accounts in small-town newspapers and crackpot magazines. It didn't matter that most of the facts and figures didn't check out. They stuck where it mattered: in the craw of hardworking taxpayers who felt cheated by so-called government entitlements. John Sears grew concerned that these yarns of Reagan's might come back to haunt him.”
― Bob Spitz, Reagan: An American Journey

tags: boomerang, idiocracy

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“What has modern civilization with its "rule of law", its giant industrial enterprises, its "representative democracy," brought? Nuclear missiles already aimed and ready for the destruction of the world, and populations --literate, well fed, and constantly voting-- of a mind to accept this madness. Civilization has failed on two counts: it has perverted the natural resources of the earth, which have the capacity to make our lives joyful, and also the natural resources of people, which have the potential for genius and love.”
― Howard Zinn

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