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In The Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, With Nine of Her Best Stories

by Ichiyō Higuchi

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Ashley’s Quotes

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

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“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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“Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

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“They don't deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white..., they only study the effects of environment on human nature. You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of educational advantages, arrange it so he has to struggle hard to fulfill his instinct for self-respect, give him little physical privacy and leisure time, and he would after a time assume the same characteristics you attach to the Negro. These characteristics don't spring from whiteness or blackness, but from a man's conditioning.”
― John Howard Griffin

tags: conditioning, education, environment, ghetto, human-nature, poverty, race, struggle

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The Transatlantic Book Club — 15 members — last activity Feb 12, 2015 01:54PM
We all live too far apart to meet in person (well, most of us), so this is a new venue to talk about what we're reading. At the moment each month's bo ...more

Letters and Diaries — 6 members — last activity Mar 24, 2015 10:47AM
The letters and diaries of the past provide a wealth of detail about the past, the way people lived and how they thought. This is a group to read and ...more

500 Great Books By Women — 1610 members — last activity Sep 01, 2025 05:18AM
500 Great Books By Women A Reader's Guide to the Worlds of Women's Writing Be sure to check out the bookshelf and see if you've reviewed any of the ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 222906 members — last activity Mar 09, 2026 04:09AM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more