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Kelsey is Currently Reading

Kelsey is currently reading

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

by Deirdre Mask (Goodreads Author)

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Kelsey’s Quotes

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“This, reader, is an honest book...I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray”
― Michel de Montaigne

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“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: tolerance, xenophobia

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“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: curiosity, greed, insight, understanding

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