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Pet Sematary

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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture

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The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

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“War, 46. 267. Bunyan, Intervention, 277,”
― Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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“I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.”
― Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones

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