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"Page 9 & the highlighting begins!!
"...Salem is in part the story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meet a set of unquestioned answers " & Page 10
"..what are you saying when you place the very emblem of lowly domestic duty between your legs & ride off ~ defying the bounds of community & laws of gravity? "" — Jan 19, 2016 05:41PM
"Page 9 & the highlighting begins!!
"...Salem is in part the story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meet a set of unquestioned answers " & Page 10
"..what are you saying when you place the very emblem of lowly domestic duty between your legs & ride off ~ defying the bounds of community & laws of gravity? "" — Jan 19, 2016 05:41PM
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"" I finally understood war for the first time in Maglaj. I saw a beautiful woman without any clothes lying at the entrance to the town in the middle of the sniper's path. ...The people would scream at her to get up, try to drag her, finally beg her to move. But she stayed........She was safer in madness than in reality." Page 30......" — Jul 11, 2016 09:24AM
"" I finally understood war for the first time in Maglaj. I saw a beautiful woman without any clothes lying at the entrance to the town in the middle of the sniper's path. ...The people would scream at her to get up, try to drag her, finally beg her to move. But she stayed........She was safer in madness than in reality." Page 30......" — Jul 11, 2016 09:24AM
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"Oh This Book! We all know the tale but Ms. Williams looks at this historical record from the point of view of 2018
" Elizabeth was scandalised & also conscious of her position: if an anointed queen could be abducted, raped, imprisoned & then deposed & no one protested, then what of the right of any queen to be on the throne? She naturally feared that her enemies might be emboldened to treat her similiarly." Pg 219" — Dec 09, 2018 01:53PM
"Oh This Book! We all know the tale but Ms. Williams looks at this historical record from the point of view of 2018
" Elizabeth was scandalised & also conscious of her position: if an anointed queen could be abducted, raped, imprisoned & then deposed & no one protested, then what of the right of any queen to be on the throne? She naturally feared that her enemies might be emboldened to treat her similiarly." Pg 219" — Dec 09, 2018 01:53PM
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― Alarms and Discursions
― Alarms and Discursions
“But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.”
― While I Was Gone
― While I Was Gone
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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