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

See Emily’s 9 books with notes and highlights…

“The reason something becomes retrospectively significant in a far-flung future is detached from the reason it was significant at the time of its creation—and that’s almost always due to a recalibration of social ideologies that future generations will accept as normative.”
― Chuck Klosterman, But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

tags: past

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“Getting here had become part of what being here meant.”
― D.J. Waldie, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place

tags: los-angeles

1 likes

“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

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“As it’s told, it is altered, as all stories are in the telling, by time, will, perception, faith, love, work, by hope, decrepit, imagination, fear, history and the thousand other variable powers that play upon our personal narratives.”
― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run

tags: narratives

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“How can any of us ever be sure that we know what other people mean when they use words?”
― Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English

tags: language, meaning, understanding

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