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Deanna
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The old ways weren’t working anymore, but people were desperate to stick to what had once made them prosperous and so many stubbornly refused to adapt. Refused to change.
Relevant to so many things these days (and maybe always).
“There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.”
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
“We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine.”
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“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
“It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Deanna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Deanna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
4,463 books
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117 friends
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2,983 books
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Classics, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Paranormal, Poetry, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller
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