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Amanda is Currently Reading

Amanda is currently reading

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

by Maggie Haberman

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Jul 30, 2026 10:02AM

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Famesick

by Lena Dunham (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 27, 2026 11:10AM

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The Colossus of Maroussi

by Henry Miller

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Jul 21, 2026 07:19AM

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We are both scientists, Eilish, we belong to a tradition but tradition is nothing more than what everyone can agree on – the scientists, the teachers, the institutions, if you change ownership of the institutions then you can change ...more

Amanda’s Quotes

“The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

tags: books

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

136182 likes

“Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

tags: constellation, definition, life, phenomena, vital

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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

tags: food, wine

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