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Preetika

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Preetika’s favorite books

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez

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Preetika’s Notes & Highlights

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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Both Amos and I were critical and argumentative, he even more than I, but during the years of our collaboration neither of us ever rejected out of hand anything the other said.

Preetika’s Quotes

“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

tags: happiness

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“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

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“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words: Marilyn Monroe's Revealing Last Words and Her Photographs

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