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Bingo, Bango, Boingo

by Alan Michael Parker (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 25, 2025 11:07AM

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

by Bill Bryson

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Dec 19, 2024 08:58PM

“It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They place the burden on me to step out of my world and reach into theirs”
― Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

tags: disability, disability-awareness, disability-quotes

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“Pearson Street is just what you want a shopping street to be—busy, friendly, local, and happy. Joyce thinks it’s so perfect that it’s surely only six months away from having a Starbucks and losing what it now has.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

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“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence

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“And what is history, anyway, but the chance to dig up our skeletons and give them new stories ?”
― Amber Sparks, And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

tags: history

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“It was a community, and in Ibrahim's opinion that was how human beings were designed to live. At Coopers Chase, anytime you wanted to be alone, you would simply close your front door, and anytime you wanted to be with people, you would open it up again. If there was a better recipe for happiness than that, then Ibrahim was yet to hear it.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

tags: community, happiness

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