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Cynthia
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“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
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“No" is a complete sentence.”
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“E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
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“A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy.
(pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
(pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Cynthia’s 2025 Year in Books
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439 books
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3 friends
419 books
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24 friends
977 books
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36 friends
486 books
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0 books
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1 book
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0 books
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10 friends
1,499 books
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72 friends
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