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Students today, he claimed, were so primed to focus on diversity that they ‘have shockingly little to say about such perennial questions as class, war, the economy and the common good’.
“After my parents died, it took me months before I could carry on a conversation with someone who had not known them, who expected me to be young and sparkling and untouched by grief.”
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“(On one estimate, the adult human brain stores about one billion bits—a couple of orders of magnitude less than a low-end smartphone.”
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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Ask Karen Russell
— 76 members
— last activity Nov 01, 2011 02:57PM
Join innovative author Karen Russell for a discussion of her work in celebration of the paperback release of her novel Swamplandia. This is a chance t ...more
Goodreads Company Book Club
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— last activity Dec 05, 2016 04:45PM
Book club for Goodreads employees and alumni. We're a reading machine! In addition to this group, we have some other interest-specific reading groups ...more
Think Big Book Club
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— last activity Apr 19, 2017 05:26PM
A book club for Goodreads employees who want to Think Big. We'll read and discuss one book (every other month) around how others have thought big abou ...more
F-Word Book Group!
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— last activity Jan 03, 2020 12:56PM
Goodreads company feminist book group! What's not to love? ...more
Goodreads Dev
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— last activity Apr 03, 2019 03:06PM
Devs at Goodreads read tech books and learn things together
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