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Blanche is Currently Reading

Blanche is currently reading

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

by Salman Rushdie

bookshelves: owned, currently-reading

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— Dec 06, 2016 08:47AM

Sep 12, 2016 05:03PM

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

by Oliver Sacks

bookshelves: non-fiction, currently-reading

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progress: — Sep 04, 2009 11:36PM

Jul 29, 2009 01:49PM

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: anti-racism, history, non-fiction, owned, currently-reading

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Jan 15, 2021 12:30PM

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Blanche’s Quotes

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom

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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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“I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long …arousing and persuading and reproaching…You will not easily find another like me.”
― Plato, Apology

tags: serious

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“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."

(Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: bad-reviews, literary-criticism, novels, the-davinci-code, writing

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