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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

by Alice Wong

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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki

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“You’re important, and you’re irreplaceable.” “Be yourself, and be unique.” “Go for it. Strive to achieve something.” We know everyone means well, but young people are probably bombarded with these types of messages on a daily basis. ...more

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“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen

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“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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