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"I don't know how, but this book strikes a chord with me. How exactly the character Isabel exists is essential to my feelings that resonate with how she explains who she actually is. Sorry, I'm actually feeling like someone can explain what I'm going through and it eases the stress of my worser feelings." Aug 23, 2026 08:57AM

 
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Émile Zola
“Perhaps it needed a lawyer, a man of learning capable of speaking and acting without endangering his comrades' cause? But he soon rejected the idea and recovered his poise. No, no, they didn't want lawyers!”
Émile Zola, Germinal

Fredric Jameson
“But I do think we have an interest in at least provisionally separating this now familiar
postmodern debate from the matter of globalization, all the while under- standing only too well that the two issues are deeply intertwined and that positions on the postmodern are bound to make their way back in eventually.”
Fredric Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic

Gary Shteyngart
“The Ferrari felt a bit much, like Jeff Park hadn't gotten the "0.1 Percenter's Memo" about experiences not objects being the shit, but then again Barry collected watches, so who was he to talk?”
Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success

H.W. Brands
“The island was the home of Chief Oolooteka, the local Cherokee leader; by the chief's house the brothers discovered young Sam sprawled beneath a tree, reading Homer. They urged him to return to civilization, but he refused, saying (according to his later recollection) that he liked "the wild liberty of the Red Men better than the tyranny of his own brothers.”
H.W. Brands

Milan Kundera
“Communism enthralled me in much the way Stravinsky, Picasso and surrealism had,” he wrote decades later. “It promised a great, miraculous metamorphosis, a totally new and different world. But then the Communists actually took over my country, and a reign of terror set in.”
Milan Kundera

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