James

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James’s Notes & Highlights

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle’s edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they ...more

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James’s Quotes

“Not a yard but was part of a shell-hole--not an inch, to be more precise--
And most of the holes held water, and all the water was ice:
They stared at the bleak blue heavens like the glazed blue eyes of the slain,
Till the snow came, shutting them gently, and sheeting the slaughtered plain.”
― E. W. Hornung

tags: death, poetry, soldiers, war, wwi

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“Not, of course, as much as Julia Roberts or David Beckham or Robbie Williams, but he found he wasn’t really bothered about that. He was, after all, basically a simple, modest person at heart. Doing a short but honest day’s work, doing it well and earning a revoltingly large amount of money would suit him very nicely.”
― Tom Holt, Barking

tags: lawyers, work, work-ethics

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“Indeed, [Jimmy] Dean believed in Rowlf so completely that he would sometimes genuinely break up when Rowlf delivered one-liners, laughing so hard that he was unable to sing. "I treated Rowlf like he was real, but he WAS real to me," Dean said, "and I think that's one of the reasons he made such an impression on everyone.”
― Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography

tags: art, inspirational, jim-henson, muppets, puppets

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“Every few months, white people trot out a new title in a series called Cops Keep Killing People. Each new release has the latest tragic scene on the cover. It sure seems to be the same book recycled over and over, but please don't form a judgment until you read all five hundred pages. Maybe this time the story will end differently and the cops will be the hero!”
― D.L. Hughley, How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

tags: black-history, black-lives-matter, murder, police, police-brutality, police-state, racial-discrimination, racial-injustice, racial-profiling, systemic-racism

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“Then I repented heartily of all my life past, but that repentance yielded me no satisfaction, no peace, no, not in the least, because, as I said to myself, it was repenting after the power of further sinning was taken away. I seemed not to mourn that I had committed such crimes, and for the fact, as it was an offence against God and my neighbour, but that I was to be punished for it. I was a penitent, as I thought, not that I had sinned, but that I was to suffer, and this took away all the comfort of my repentance in my own thoughts.”
― Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

tags: enlightenment, penitence, prayer, punishment, religious-faith, repentance, sorrow

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