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WndyJW is Currently Reading

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The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral

by Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, poetry, women-poets, indie-press, mcnally-editions, marginalia-editions

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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28

by Dorothy Parker

bookshelves: nonfiction, essays, about-books-reading-writing, humor-dark-humor, america, mcnally-editions, indie-press, currently-reading, women, women-of-a-certain-age

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Jan 10, 2026 09:38PM

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Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets (Calico Series, 12)

by Sarah Coolidge

bookshelves: currently-reading, poetry, afghanistan, persian-lit, livesofwomen, feminism, women-authors, women-in-translation, women-poets, indie-press, two-lines-press

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WndyJW’s Quotes

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism

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“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
― Herman Melville

tags: criticism, poverty

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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

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