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"Wow this is acerbic, with lots of information, but acerbic." — Mar 06, 2025 01:30AM
"Wow this is acerbic, with lots of information, but acerbic." — Mar 06, 2025 01:30AM
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Beautiful recipes. The red and green shakshukas alone can be cooked in many different ways and have kept me satiated many many times.
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“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.”
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“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
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“Reader, I married him.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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