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Mary

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Mary’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Secret Stories: Tales from the Secret History (The Secret History of the World)

Secret Stories: Tales from the Secret History (The Secret History of the World) by F. Paul Wilson

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"Look at them, Karl. The cream of the city's artists attended by their cachinating claques and coteries of epigones and acolytes, mixing with the city's lowlifes and lunatics. Morphine addicts and vegetarians cheek by jowl with Bolsheviks ...more

What? I have a decent vocabulary, but there are at least seven words in this paragraph that I don’t know the meaning of. I am sure the author was trying to make the setting more memorable, but this is just too much. I gave up.

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Mary’s Quotes

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann

tags: books, house, simile, windows

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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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