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Phil Morris is Currently Reading

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Lonesome Dove

by Larry McMurtry

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Mar 18, 2026 02:21PM

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The Cutting Place (Maeve Kerrigan #9)

by Jane Casey (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 01, 2025 01:40AM

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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

by Hilary Mantel

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Phil Morris’s Notes & Highlights

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Those who know the English colonies abroad know that we carry with us our pride, pills, prejudices, Harvey-sauces, cayenne-peppers, and other Lares, making a little Britain wherever we settle down.

As true today as it ever was

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“If we wish to understand our own place on earth, we must seek to understand those who have gone on before us. We must look beyond the present moment and see ourselves reflected in the deep pool of time as individual elements of a greater humanity, and not as the passing shapes that we may glimpse every day in a looking glass, which then are gone forever.”
― Ian Mortimer, The Outcasts of Time

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“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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