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“Imagine a single drop of water: that’s the protest. Now put that drop of water into a bucket: that’s the protest movement. Now drop that bucket into Lake Michigan: that’s Reality. But old Cronkite knows the danger of television is that people begin seeing the entire world through that single drop of water. How that one drop refracts the light becomes the whole picture. For”
― The Nix
― The Nix
“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“For us, places we went were home. We didn't care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn't have to pretend to be something we weren't. We just got to be. That made all the difference in the world.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Früher wollte ich immer eine Romanfigur werden. Unsterblich sein und für immer in einem Buch leben, während mich jeder von außen lesen und beobachten kann.”
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
“Im Wald gab es Töten ohne Hass, Fortpflanzung ohne Liebe, Kooperation ohne Gesetze, Ernährung ohne Wissenschaft und Lebensfreude ohne Philosophie.”
― Unterleuten
― Unterleuten
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This is a public forum for people to kvetch (cleanly, please) about books they absolutely hated, and for others to respond. Though nonfiction is certa ...more
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