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The History of Philosophy

by A.C. Grayling

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"Trudging through the Ancient Greeks, who, thankfully, I studied at school. There are still areas I don't understand, despite Grayling's clear, entertaining, and faintly academic explanations—the Presocratics being a particularly tiring arena. But it's worth the wading; reading real philosophy exercises the mind, challenges it, even if the concept is impenetrable." — Feb 21, 2020 05:06PM

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart (Goodreads Author)

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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

by Jessica Brody (Goodreads Author)

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“For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

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“Classic writing, with its assumption of equality between writer and reader, makes the reader feel like a genius. Bad writing makes the reader feel like a dunce.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

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“Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on a screen.”
― Anthony Burgess

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“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim 'I do enjoy myself' or 'I am horrified' we are insincere. 'As far as I feel anything, it is enjoyment, horror' - it's no more than that really, and a perfectly adjusted organism would be silent.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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