Emily

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Emily’s Bookshelves

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Emily’s Notes & Highlights

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

1 highlight

Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven’t read.

Dead and Alive: Essays

by Zadie Smith

1 highlight
The Holy or the Broken

by Alan Light

2 highlights

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Emily’s Quotes

“Man, it would seem, does not evolve; he accumulates. (“Prehistoric Eyes”)”
― Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

tags: history

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“Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person. Biology has no moral compass. It does not punish the evil and reward the good. It doesn’t even know about evil and good.

Stigma is a way of saying, “You deserved to have this happen,” but implied within the stigma is also, “And I don’t deserve it, so I don’t need to worry about it happening to me.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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“But honesty was a dull blade to take into a knife fight with Richard Nixon -- who was simply willing to lie.”
― Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

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“Of course I was being sincere, but you can be sincere and be wrong, or in any case you can persuade yourself that you’re wrong as sincerely as you persuaded yourself to the contrary. “Nine Columns for an Italian Magazine”
― Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words: Essays

tags: love

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“Over time, we all become committed to a version of the story of our lives. Simplification and repetition solidify the account, and we tend to stick with that identity. But that is old news.”
― Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

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