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Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

On the Border of Snow and Melt by Georgy Ivanov

The Trauma of Caste by Thenmozhi Soundararajan

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reader’s Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”
― Alexander Pope, Essay on Man and Other Poems

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“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Kate Atkinson, Case Histories

tags: books, life

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“If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
― William S. Burroughs

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“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

tags: deception, devil, existence, reality, ruse, ruses, sleight-of-hand, tricks

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