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Katabasis

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where ...more

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“There's no such thing as a weed," Cas said. "That's a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as 'unwanted' and some as 'valuable,' as if the worth of a living thing is measured by how useful it is to another living thing. As if a plant can't gave its own intrinsic worth.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

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“The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don´t you?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“Of course knowledge is dangerous. But ignorance is even more dangerous”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

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“Sam used to say that Marx was the most fortunate person he had ever met—he was lucky with lovers, in business, in looks, in life. But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn’t truly understood the nature of Marx’s good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know—were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had they just now become his favorite fruit because there they were, growing in his own backyard? He had certainly never mentioned persimmons before. My God, she thought, he is so easy to love.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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