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“Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of comparison to shut off any understanding of our connections with one another as human beings, we risk becoming something less than human ourselves. (7)”
― Martha Minow, Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law

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“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: adolescent, beatnik, poetic, poetry, prose

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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