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Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)

by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 05, 2012 08:55PM

“We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.”
― James Baldwin

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“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: classics, inspirational

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