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Blanche is Currently Reading

Blanche is currently reading

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

by Salman Rushdie

bookshelves: owned, currently-reading

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— Dec 06, 2016 08:47AM

Sep 12, 2016 05:03PM

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

by Oliver Sacks

bookshelves: non-fiction, currently-reading

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progress: — Sep 04, 2009 11:36PM

Jul 29, 2009 01:49PM

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: anti-racism, history, non-fiction, owned, currently-reading

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Jan 15, 2021 12:30PM

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Blanche’s Quotes

“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."

(Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: bad-reviews, literary-criticism, novels, the-davinci-code, writing

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“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom

1141 likes

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life, regrets

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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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