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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

by Shannon Chakraborty

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A Third Kind of Madness

by Christiane Knight (Goodreads Author)

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Velma’s Quotes

“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

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“If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”
― Friedrich von Schiller

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“Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.”
― Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf

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“Critique by creating.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

tags: creativity, criticism

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“[Alcohol] cures everything, except for stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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