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La Costa Nostra

by Laura Ardila Arrieta

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May 04, 2026 09:32PM

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Dracula (DK Classics)

by Bram Stoker

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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

by Marc Reisner

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“But realize this: we are living through writing’s Cambrian explosion, not its mass extinction. Language is more varied than ever before, even if some of it is directly copied from the clipboard—variety is the preservation of an art, not a threat to it.”
― Christian Rudder, Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

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“I never want to see umbrellas around me," he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.”
― David I. Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

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“It is a truth universally unacknowledged that when the dead are trying to remember something, the living are trying harder to forget it.”
― Jess Kidd, Himself

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“There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.”
― Christian Rudder, Dataclysm: Who We Are

tags: books, printed, twitter, words, written

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“My geekness is a-quivering.”
― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

tags: humor, scorpius-malfoy

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