Elizabeth

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Elizabeth is Currently Reading

Elizabeth is currently reading

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

by Jonathan Blitzer

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Elizabeth said: " Pg 23 As a Christian, running in the aftermath of Watergate and Vietnam, Carter liked to quote the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "The sad duty of politicians is to establish justice in a sinful world."

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"Several other countries, including El Salvador ...more "

Dec 12, 2024 10:29AM · see review

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

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Elizabeth said: " As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble. Pg 18

Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster ...more "

Oct 25, 2024 11:01AM · see review

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When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

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Elizabeth said: " Literature, not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. pg 51 LP

Maybe Beckett's Pozzo is right. Maybe life is merely an "instant," too brief to consider. pg 85 LP

Putting lifestyle fir ...more "

Aug 27, 2024 11:49AM · see review

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Elizabeth’s Quotes

“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”
― Renata Adler, Speedboat

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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