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The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

by Philip Pullman

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Dec 06, 2023 06:39PM

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On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

by Sara Ahmed

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May 29, 2021 11:03AM

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The Witches: Salem, 1692

by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 17, 2020 07:21PM

Melanie’s Quotes

“I will go where I will go
And I will jettison all dead weight
And I will use these words for kindling
And I will sleep by the garden gate.”
― John Darnielle

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“...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.”
― Alasdair Gray

tags: economics, writing

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“Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

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“Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a television set and wishing they had the courage to roll over the parapet of a high bridge? I bet there are millions of us.”
― Alasdair Gray

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