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Sasha is Currently Reading

Sasha is currently reading

The Slynx

by Tatyana Tolstaya

bookshelves: dystopian, fiction, science-fiction, post-apocalyptic, favorites, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in August 2011

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Aug 12, 2011 08:45PM

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Journey into the Whirlwind

by Eugenia Ginzburg

bookshelves: history, biography-memoir, repressions, currently-reading

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Sasha’s Quotes

“It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“If any human being, man, woman, dog, cat or half-crushed worm dares call me “middlebrow” I will take my pen and stab him, dead. Yours etc., Virginia Woolf.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: confidence, criticism, dark-humor, sarcasm

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“We think of technological change as the fancy, new, expensive stuff. But the real change comes from last-decade stuff getting cheaper and faster.”
― CGP Grey

tags: change, future, science-fiction, technology

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“Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!”
― Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer

tags: alphabet, children, destiny, god, kindergarten

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