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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

by Douglas Adams

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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

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“Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?”
― Jeanette Winterson

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“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.”
― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

tags: phenomenal-woman

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“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey

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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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