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So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

by Gabriel Zaid

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries

by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

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Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.

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“Show me a man, any man, he is my brother. Show me a bigot, any bigot, he is my enemy.”
― Bill Russell, Go Up for Glory

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“E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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