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The Reagan Diaries

by Ronald Reagan

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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

by John Steinbeck

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Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)

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“Just as people talk about things of no real interest to them, they also take pictures of things that have no real interest to them, and the results are uniformly boring.”
― Bruce Barnbaum, The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression

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“I am most excited by people, places, and cultures that have not yet been overtaken by the creeping homogeny of the west. I love the color and texture of those places, the vitality of life, and the ritual and symbolism of cultures not yet tyrannized by the need to wear the same jeans and believe the same things.”
― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

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“No matter how long I linger with any being, I cannot exhaust the dynamic enigma of its presence.”
― David Abram, Becoming Animal

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“in the state of mind in which we “observe” we are a long way below the level to which we rise when we create. There was, then, embedded in my”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time: The Complete Masterpiece

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“While in the past people of rank or status were those and only those who took risks, who had the downside for their actions, and heroes were those who did so for the sake of others, today the exact reverse is taking place. We are witnessing the rise of a new class of inverse heroes, that is, bureaucrats, bankers, Davos-attending members of the I.A.N.D. (International Association of Name Droppers), and academics with too much power and no real downside and/or accountability. They game the system while citizens pay the price.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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