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Ron Peters is currently reading

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

by Hu Anyan

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Ron’s Notes & Highlights

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

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The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement. They consider metaphysics a branch of fantastic literature.

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Ron’s Quotes

“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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“‎"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow”
― Edward R. Murrow, In Search Of Light: The Broadcasts Of Edward R. Morrow, 1938-1961

tags: politics-of-the-united-states

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“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.”
― Mark Hanna

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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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