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The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)

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The White Album: Essays by Joan Didion

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We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a ...more

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“No matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves.”
― Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl

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“But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. Or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. Because without that thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat: A Novel by Sabahattin Ali

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“I miss you more than I remember you.”
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