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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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“So long, crumb-bum.”
― J. D. Salinger

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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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“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

tags: inspirational, life

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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

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Magic Realism — 1036 members — last activity Jul 04, 2025 11:47AM
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 — 26173 members — last activity 16 hours, 34 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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