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Judith is Currently Reading

Judith E is currently reading

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

by Jill Lepore

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Butcher's Crossing

by John Williams

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Judith’s Quotes

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, escape, reading

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“In the end, though, freedom depends upon citizens who are able to make a distinction between what is true and what they want to hear. Authoritarianism arrives not because people say that they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts and desires.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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“How could you imagine the complexities of what might come?”
― Michael Farris Smith, Desperation Road

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“You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: religion, sobriety

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