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Yellowface

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, contemporary-fiction

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Mar 16, 2024 04:59AM

Joy’s Quotes

“When Daniel Boone is uneasy, you know it’s time to watch your step.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

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“The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth.”
― Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

tags: south, southerners

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“The hardest part is setting the camera on the tripod, or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car, or just raising the camera to your face, believing, by those actions, that whatever you find before you, whatever you find there, is going to be good.”
― Sally Mann

tags: art, photography

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“I believe that photographs actually rob all of us of our memory.”
― Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

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“The glassmakers had brought a new source of wealth to Venice, but they had also brought the less appealing habit of burning down the neighborhood.”
― Steven Johnson

tags: glass, science, venice

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