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Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

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Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920

by Tabitha Barber

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Barbette’s Quotes

“I am Evil Forest. I kill a man on the day that his life is sweetest to him.”
― Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART

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“A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

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“...as the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.”
― Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART

tags: aging

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“But the Ibo have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

tags: positive-thinking, proverbs

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“How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum.”
― Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

tags: art

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