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What I have made for myself is personal, but is not exactly peace…. Most of us live less theatrically, but remain the survivors of a peculiar and inward time. Joan Didion, “On the Morning After the Sixties,” The White Album
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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National Book Awards - Fiction
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This Goodreads book club will read all the books that have received a National Book Award - Fiction. We will start with the first book awarded in 1950 ...more
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