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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

by Sandy Tolan

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

by George Monbiot

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“We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Tolkien Reader

tags: authors, books, dreams, heroes, imagination, reading

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“Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?'

'Yes,' [said Caladan Brood.] 'You never learn.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

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“Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

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