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El príncipe del sol (El príncipe del sol, #1)

by Claudia Ramírez Lomelí (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 15, 2026 11:16PM

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Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King

by Gareth Russell (Goodreads Author)

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Ordinary Saints

by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin

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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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“That's how vilification works. The victim ingests the views of his tormentor. If that's how I look, that's what I must be.”
― Howard Jacobson, Shylock Is My Name

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“Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present

tags: humor, technology

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“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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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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