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The Book of Night Women

by Marlon James

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Oct 28, 2026 09:22AM

“I need you to read this, too,” she would say, handing me a New Yorker story in which an unhappily married man had to get a rabies shot, “so you can tell me what it really means.” She believed, and I did, too, that every story had a central ...more

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“There is the old saying that work is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The 6 Types of Working Genius

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“The eternal pauper in the great marketplace of ideas and of the world, I had nothing to teach anyone. I didn’t have anything anyone wanted.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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