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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

by Les Payne

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Feb 04, 2026 06:36PM

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It ...more

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acdt’s Quotes

“And my own way was to sprinkle a bit of mischief onto even my most villainous roles, just as I brought a little mischief into my encounters with my mother: doing whatever I could to make the darkness sparkle.”
― Tim Curry, Vagabond

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“The past was past; whatever it had been, it was no more at hand. Whatever its consequences, time would close over them; they would all in a few years be as if they had never been, and she herself grassed down and forgotten. Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, no sickened because of her pain.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

tags: nature, past, suffering, time

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“Acting on Hope to prevent further degradation is our moral obligation.”
― Emily Monosson, Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

tags: action, fungi, health, hope

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“With all the desperate passions in our heads and bodies, one day these walls will split, one day this house will fall down. There will be soil and bones and grass, and they will read our diaries to find out what we were.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

tags: history, impermanence, legacy

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“All sins are murder, even as all life is war. I behold your race, like starving mariners on a raft, plucking crusts out of the hands of famine and feeding on each other’s lives. I follow sins beyond the moment of their acting; I find in all that the last consequence is death; and to my eyes, the pretty maid who thwarts her mother with such taking graces on a question of a ball, drips no less visibly with human gore than a murderer.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Markheim

tags: evil, morality

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