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Socrates was, by his own account, "a gadfly". He spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. His typical approach was to innocently question an established idea; he started with simple questions that a politician or businessman or military general invariably found easy to answe...
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A Good Hard Look: A Novel
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Within Arm's Reach: A Novel
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"I’d love to tell you about how Flannery arrived on the pages of A Good Hard Look! So keep the questions coming.
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“God is not here to be demanded of, begged from, or criticized. He hands out burdens to those who are strong enough to carry them, and I feel profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of lining up with the other invalids and asking for mine to be alleviated.”
― Ann Napolitano, A Good Hard Look: A Novel
― Ann Napolitano, A Good Hard Look: A Novel
“She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made the most of every minute she was given. She bargained and rationed and managed the seconds. She burned up the days.”
― Ann Napolitano, A Good Hard Look: A Novel
― Ann Napolitano, A Good Hard Look: A Novel
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“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. ”
― Flannery O'Connor
― Flannery O'Connor
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