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Mary is Currently Reading

Mary is currently reading

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

bookshelves: americana, history, memoir, non-fiction, slavery, science, violence, wwii, classics, currently-reading

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Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers

bookshelves: currently-reading, americana, families, non-fiction, new-orleans, natural-disaster

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Mary’s Quotes

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

tags: blonde, sex-appeal

254 likes

“This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.”
― Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark

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“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

114 likes

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: failure, success

387 likes

“But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

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