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Ron is Currently Reading

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Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World

by A.N. Wilson

bookshelves: biography, enlightenment, currently-reading

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Unsheltered

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture

by Jon Savage

bookshelves: currently-reading, history, youth, culture

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Ron’s Notes & Highlights

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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement by Albert Woodfox

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Our resistance gave us an identity. Our identity gave us strength. Our strength gave us an unbreakable will. My determination not to be broken was stronger than any other part of me, stronger than anything they did to me.

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Ron’s Quotes

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

tags: capitalism, greed, growth

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“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

tags: books, good-impressions

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: politics

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“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

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