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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)

by James Baldwin

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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

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the South had a cat’s cradle of ties, economic, ideological, and god knew what, with the Reich. And Frank Frink was a Jew.

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Cheryl’s Quotes

“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
― André Maurois

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“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
― Thomas Jefferson

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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

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“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Aldous Huxley

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