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This Is Not About Us

by Allegra Goodman (Goodreads Author)

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Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility: The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth

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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History

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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: dissent, freedom-of-speech, truth-telling

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“I am an author, and I for one am deeply offended by the notion that my waywardness, peevishness, irascibility, misanthropy, and murky passions are caused by a derangement of bodily health, even as I am impressed by a nineteenth-century magazine’s ability to absolutely nail my personality.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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