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Much had changed since. No longer was China unified under a virtuous and powerful Zhou king. By 700 bce the country had splintered into small, independent, and often warring states,
“From the moment I first started studying joy, it was clear that the liveliest places and objects all have one thing in common: bright, vivid color. Whether it’s a row of houses painted in bold swaths of candy hues or a display of colored markers in a stationery shop, vibrant color invariably sparks a feeling of delight.”
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
“chaos and butchery. The People must be united, must”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
“People familiar with the Hebrew Bible will note a glaring omission: the book of Joshua, which explains how those Jewish rulers became rulers in the first place. According to the text, the Israelites under the leadership of Joshua Ben Nun conquered Canaan from the seven nations that lived there. The AJC’s chronology skips over that.”
― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.”
― Unreliable Memoirs
― Unreliable Memoirs
“My own simplistic definition would be: dualism results when we make necessary distinctions, and then take those distinctions too seriously. We turn those distinctions into dividing lines rather than connecting lines; we use them as no-trespassing signs. We not only distinguish, we separate. And the separation usually leads to ranking: one side is superior to and dominant over the other. Thus, we have the dualism of matter and spirit, East and West, nature and history, male and female, God and the world.”
― Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian
― Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian
Literary Prizes
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A place to discuss the Booker, the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Newbery, and/or any other literary awards.
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