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"“Never let anyone tell you that the Luddites were afraid of technology or angry about "progress." That's a lie propagated by history's winners, whose great fortunes required oceans of blood from child laborers, murdered protesters, and enslaved Africans in the "New World" who provided the cotton for their machines.”" — May 02, 2026 08:30AM
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From February 2012: The narrator, a young woman just barely out of school is working for a rich and unpleasant American woman as a companion, when she meets Maxim de Winter, a man twice her age and recently widowed who nevertheless courts her and ask
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"Picking up this classic narrated by Anna Massey for the third time. Perfect accompaniment as I draw my Codex series." — Apr 05, 2026 04:10PM
"Picking up this classic narrated by Anna Massey for the third time. Perfect accompaniment as I draw my Codex series." — Apr 05, 2026 04:10PM
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Reading for the 3rd time
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Read in November 2014. Among countless books I wish I'd had time and energy to review. The five star rating is my personal system for denoting books I want to return to as often as I can because they've left such a strong impression on me... spoken t
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“The object of art is to give life a shape,’ said Shakespeare. And my life –and my mess of a mind –needed shape. I had ‘lost the plot’. There was no linear narrative of me. There was just mess and chaos. So yes, I loved external narratives for the hope they offered. Films. TV dramas. And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity.”
― Reasons To Stay Alive
― Reasons To Stay Alive
“Because inside there is a golden you who loves you and wants you to win and prevail and be happy. #reasonstostayalive”
― Reasons To Stay Alive
― Reasons To Stay Alive
“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”
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“The religious kids were really religious, the kind who push religion on others in a way that always freaks me out. They are like people who keep telling me, 'You have to see Hamilton!' Honestly, no I don't and the more you keep telling me, the less likely I am to actually see it. Though I have subsequently seen, "Hamilton" and it's excellent.”
― A Very Punchable Face
― A Very Punchable Face
“Lincoln is not the only famous leader to have battled depression. Winston Churchill lived with the ‘black dog’ for much of his life too. Watching a fire, he once remarked to a young researcher he was employing: ‘I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.”
― Reasons To Stay Alive
― Reasons To Stay Alive
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