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Shirley is Currently Reading

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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

by Richard Holmes

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Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

by Joey Santore

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Shirley’s Quotes

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: introductions, new-beginnings

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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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“It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: humor

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“Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.”
― John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

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“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”
― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

tags: countries, love, loyalty, nationality, politics, war

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