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If Not, Winter by Sappho The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial by Alice Oswald The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Myth and Thought Among the Greeks by Jean-Pierre Vernant Paul Takes the Form of Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor Situated Learning by Jean Lave The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Wicked by Gregory Maguire
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Ronald Wright
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck
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