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Christian is Currently Reading

Christian is currently reading

The New Avengers Omnibus, Vol. 2

by Brian Michael Bendis

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Book cover for Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

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If the logic of our time had applied to the facts of an earlier age, someone would have put out a report suggesting that ending slavery was great for reducing the trade deficit.

“Did you know that Anastasia, the Romanov grand duchess, took selfies?.... Of course she used a mirror, but still… Those photos she took had no third party. No outside eye. They come directly to us from her, across the ages. A long-gone girl capturing her own image and immortalizing it.”
― Emma Vieceli, Life Is Strange Vol. 3: Strings

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“The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget most of the stupid things I say as soon as I finish saying them.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

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“Fare thee well my nightingale
I lived but to be near you
Though you are singing somewhere still
I can no longer hear you”
― Leonard Cohen, The Flame

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“Cinema helps us to remember that although we all have the right to shine, some of us must shine in the background, out of focus, and not too brightly.”
― Richard Ayoade, Ayoade on Top

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“Don’t forget, part of the whole intellectual vocation is creating a niche for yourself, and if everybody can understand what you’re talking about, you’ve sort of lost, because then what makes you special? What makes you special has got to be something that you had to work really had to understand, and you mastered it, and all those guys out there don’t understand it, and then that becomes the basis for your privilege and your power.”
― Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

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