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Jessica is Currently Reading

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How to be a Good Bboy: What a cat’s kindness teaches us about human justice

by Ellen Murray

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The Secret Lives of Color

by Kassia St. Clair

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Dec 25, 2018 04:24PM

“War tends to make us all students of diplomacy, does it not? There is a story that Napoléon once told the widow of the Marquis de Condorcet that he detested women who meddled in politics. Do you know her reply?’

Sebastian shook his head.

‘She said, “You are right, of course, General. But in a country where one cuts off women’s heads, it is natural that they should wish to know the reason why.”
― C.S. Harris, Where Shadows Dance

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“The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.”
― Northrop Frye

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

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“The upper class made their names for the lower classes--villain, knave, varlet, boor--into terms of contempt because the people they described had to wriggle through life as best they could: their first and almost their only rule was survival. The deadliest insult one gentleman could give another then was to call him a liar, not because the one being insulted had a passion for truth, but because it was being suggested that he couldn't afford to tell the truth.”
― Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare

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