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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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Savages (Savages, #2) by Don Winslow

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The wine world is basically divided into red and white. (We ain’t gonna go far with this—wine types are almost as hateful as tweekers. Every great wine-tasting session should end with arsenic.)

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“He hasn’t realized yet that you can’t outrun this game. There is no clock, there are only outs, and outs are precious things. As long as you have outs, you have life.”
― Matthew Callan, Hang A Crooked Number

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“Ford convinced the American public to believe in gasoline cars. And then Ford became Ford, and America became America.”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

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“Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

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“My swag was phenomenal.”
― Gilbert Arenas

tags: basketball, free-darko, sports, swag

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“Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.”
― Jason Fagone, Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America

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