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The Automatic Detective

by A. Lee Martinez (Goodreads Author)

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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Tom Quinn said: " 5 stars. Best read aloud in silly voices.

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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I had no big plan to become a curator, no great scheme to work my way up a ladder. I was just trying to pass the time. I thought that if I did normal things—held down a job, for example—I could starve off the part of me that hated ...more

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“The approach of a man's life out of the past is history, and the approach of time out of the future is mystery. Their meeting is the present, and it is consciousness, the only time life is alive.”
― Wendell Berry, Recollected Essays, 1965-1980

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“Our children, full-grown now, can never forgive us for reproducing. What a mess.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

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“Place no dependence on your own genius, even if you possess it. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate talents, industry will supply their deficiency--nothing is denied to well directed labor; nothing is obtained without it.”
― Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

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“(and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

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