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"This genre is my jam. Jennifer Wallace really understands something essential that I've been yearning to hear." — Feb 12, 2026 09:40PM
"This genre is my jam. Jennifer Wallace really understands something essential that I've been yearning to hear." — Feb 12, 2026 09:40PM
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"I love the calm, historic feeling of this. People: Painters, authors, pastors. Places: the church, the home, the school. It's brick and ideas, steeple and canvas." — Feb 09, 2026 07:50AM
"I love the calm, historic feeling of this. People: Painters, authors, pastors. Places: the church, the home, the school. It's brick and ideas, steeple and canvas." — Feb 09, 2026 07:50AM
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Baldwin's writing is at times extraordinarily exquisite. It's truly a luxury read.The plot has me in utter disbelief. How can this happen? How could any of this happen? ...more "
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"Noticed humor, romance and vile judgement this time around. I remember it feeling atmospheric, bittersweet and poignant. Age brings out other notes." — Jan 31, 2026 12:23PM
"Noticed humor, romance and vile judgement this time around. I remember it feeling atmospheric, bittersweet and poignant. Age brings out other notes." — Jan 31, 2026 12:23PM
“You could get slaves to do anything at all, bear anything, if you gave them any hope that they could keep their children.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“A perfect thing is not everything.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“Yet what I have learned in my research is that when we let kids skip out on chores or family events so they can study or practice for their soccer games, we support an overly self-focused outlook in them. It doesn’t just make them selfish and self-involved and a little hard to live with. Too much self-focus is unhealthy for them. It’s associated with clinical depression, personality disorders, and anxiety.”
― Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
― Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
“I myself was both observer and observable, and so a possible object of my own humming awareness.”
― An American Childhood
― An American Childhood
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