Emily

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Emily’s Notes & Highlights

The Holy or the Broken by Alan Light

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In these concerts, “Hallelujah” was triumphant and valedictory, but it was never dumbed down. It’s probably impossible to be ironic when twenty thousand people are singing along with you; as Bill Flanagan noted, “It’s kind of like ‘Born in ...more

Dead and Alive: Essays

by Zadie Smith

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The Midnight Shift

by Cheon Seon-ran

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Emily’s Quotes

“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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“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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“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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“I find it interesting that even here, in the supposedly pure world of science, we feel the weight of historical forces pressing in upon discovery. Our desire to create outsiders, the competition for resources among communities that would be better off cooperating, and our long history of warfare all come together in this moment of discovery.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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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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