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Mara is Currently Reading

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Docs-as-Ecosystem: The Community Approach to Engineering Documentation

by Alejandra Quetzalli (Goodreads Author)

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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green (Goodreads Author)

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Mara’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)

Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2) by Stephen King

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“We’re all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.

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Mara’s Quotes

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

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“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: future, life, past

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“Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
― Vladimir Nabokov (translator)

tags: imagination

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“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: god, humor, life

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