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“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
Are my trousers long enough?
Is my veil in place?
Can my make-up be seen?
Are they going to whip me?

No longer asks herself:
Where is my freedom of thought?
Where is my freedom of speech?
My life, is it liveable?
What's going on in the political prisons?”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

tags: freedom, opression

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“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

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“How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last?”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

tags: configurations-of-self, persona, personality, self

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“Crouched across from her, Toothwort has darkened, his foliate head has ripened into moulde, fungus and brown ripples,sweaty, heavy with rot and enzymes. He smells like natural truth, like sex and death.”
― Max Porter, Lanny

tags: decay, nature, truth

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Good Listeners' Club — 31 members — last activity Oct 28, 2020 02:01AM
CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: Motherless Child by Elizabeth Strout https://www.wnyc.org/story/elizabeth-strout-reads-motherless-child/ Free audio short ...more

Oprah's Book Club (Official) — 86675 members — last activity 3 hours, 8 min ago
Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more

Magic Realism — 1036 members — last activity 16 hours, 26 min ago
Magic realism is a global and varied mode of literature, from the early twentieth century European works which made the everyday seem magical, to the ...more

Sheffield Year of Reading 2020 Book Club — 55 members — last activity Aug 31, 2020 06:16AM
This year Sheffield Libraries will lead the city in The Sheffield Year of Reading 2020. Reading for pleasure has been shown to be one of the most impo ...more

The Next Best Book Club — 26178 members — last activity 4 hours, 24 min ago
Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more

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