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Richard Wright: The Life and Times

by Hazel Rowley

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"This is the last of Hazel Rowley's biographies I have to read. She only wrote four books, each of them biographies of significant twentieth century cultural/political/literary figures." — Oct 09, 2017 05:58PM

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A Bold and Dangerous Family (The Resistance #3)

by Caroline Moorehead

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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

by Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)

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Di said: " I love the hardback production by Houghton Mifflin, and the epigraph from Virginia Woolf: "For nothing was simply one thing". ...more "

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― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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