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Kelly’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (The Karla Trilogy, #1)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (The Karla Trilogy, #1) by John le Carré

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I knew that he represented one of the—thank God, unrealised—possibilities of my nature.

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Kelly’s Quotes

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: artistic, goals, life

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“I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.”
― Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture

tags: archive-footage, bob-dylan, interview, singer

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“I took a step toward her. 'It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right,' I said.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

tags: feminism, introvert, mental-health, self-care

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“This world was designed to generate winners and losers, and it showed a lack of character to wish yourselves a winner without accepting what it does to those who lose.”
― Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

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