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David’s favorite books

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X 1984 by George Orwell How To Be Free by Tom Hodgkinson Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Touching the Void by Joe Simpson Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
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Primo Levi
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi
tags: common-men, danger, existence, holocaust, monsters, questions
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