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100 Fiendish Little Frightmares

by Martin H. Greenberg

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— Dec 21, 2021 10:14PM

Mar 07, 2016 08:14AM

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Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America

by Kristian Williams

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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

by Andrés Reséndez

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Jon’s Quotes

“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Brecht on Theatre

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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“Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.”
― Les Back, The Art of Listening

tags: humor, sociology

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