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Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950

by Patricia Highsmith

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Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2) by Elizabeth Strout

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What she would have written about was the light in February. How it changed the way the world looked.

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

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Yes Please

by Amy Poehler

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Rita_book’s Quotes

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

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“Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.”
― Derrick A. Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

tags: education, empathy, enlightenment, justice, reform

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