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Debra Lowman
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“Culture is as much about what we encourage as what we permit.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.”
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Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.”
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“Fear. The nature of evil is fear."..
"Everyone feels fear, though. Not everyone-...It doesn't seem to matter whether a person has money or an education or social status or anything. The world just seems to break some people...so fear..plus fragility.”
― How Not To Fall
"Everyone feels fear, though. Not everyone-...It doesn't seem to matter whether a person has money or an education or social status or anything. The world just seems to break some people...so fear..plus fragility.”
― How Not To Fall
“A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can’t do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right. *”
― Beartown
― Beartown
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Adult Fiction, African American, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Spirituality, Sports, Young-adult, and War
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