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Kanita Carington-McDonald
is on page 157 of 280 of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives: great character development plus twists and turns that make this an exciting page turner and very difficult to put down! thoroughly enjoying this read!
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benightedly i gave this 4 stars i'm sorry/you are/yes/why did you give it 4 stars/i wanted it to be like Aof R/ poetry is never the same/as i'm learning mostly from the reviews i am too inexperienced to learn from the book itself/some of these poems a...more |
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The first book of mine that anyone wanted to publish. I love it, but far and away the most frequent comment I've gotten about it is that it has a lot of big words.
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I thought at first I would give this a 4, not just because I loved Autobiography of Red so much that it would be hard for this to live up to that, but also because it was extremely difficult even for someone like me who is used to reading surreal...
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jo
is on page 84 of 171 of Red Doc>: if you read one book of poetry in your life do not read this one.
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"oh, Dibs: In Search of Self is amazing. the relationship between the therapist and the child is certainly psychodynamic and absolutely gorgeous."
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
― Gail Godwin
― Gail Godwin
“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir
― Simone de Beauvoir
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
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