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Dave is Currently Reading

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Attempting Normal

by Marc Maron

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Sympathy for the Devil

by Kent Anderson (Goodreads Author)

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The Zone of Interest

by Martin Amis

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Dave’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Book Censor's Library

The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa

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All language is smooth. There are no ripples. Stay on the surface, and you’ll be the best censor.

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Dave’s Quotes

“The axles of corruption are greased with donut glaze.”
― Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls

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“George Orwell wrote, “Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”
― Daniel James Brown, Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

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“Every belief will be outgrown, in time. The first lesson of the universe is to never reason from only a single instance. Unless you only have one instance. In which case: find another.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

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“I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand— … While I weep—while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?”
― John Tresch, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

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