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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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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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“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
“When President Howard Taft was campaigning for office, someone threw a cabbage at him, and he quipped, "I see one of my adversaries has lost his head." BAM! You just got Taft-ed. Take a seat cabbage head.”
― A Very Punchable Face
― A Very Punchable Face
“The problem isn’t that we don’t know how not to get punched in the face. The problem is that, at some point, likely a long time ago, we got punched in face, and instead of punching back, we decided we deserved it.”
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.”
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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
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