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How, then, did this gentle bird lover, author of Natural History of the Swainson’s Warbler, end up dynamiting blackbirds in an Arkansas bayou?
This sentence. Mary Roach is a genius. 😂
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.”
― The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.”
― The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester
“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
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Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
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What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
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Broads, Books, and Booze
— 5 members
— last activity Jul 24, 2017 03:59PM
Official group for the most badass bookclub this side of Eden.
Dark Tower
— 872 members
— last activity Mar 21, 2020 06:03PM
We seek the Dark Tower, and will travel with Roland throughout the year, reading the Seven as well as Related Holy Texts.
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