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Sam’s favorite books

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander New X-Men Omnibus by Grant Morrison The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley The Heart of Christianity by Marcus J. Borg The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Invincible by Robert Kirkman Blankets by Craig Thompson The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Ursula K. Le Guin
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
tags: art, capitalism, change, literature, power, resistance, writing
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