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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

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The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) by Octavia E. Butler

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we learn more and more about the physical universe, more about our own bodies, more technology, but somehow, down through history, we go on building empires of one kind or another, then destroying them in one way or another. We go on having ...more

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“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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“Fear for kin. Fear of failure. The fear that accompanies all necessary change. And underneath it all, a driving need to make the world better.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

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“Once, after all, I believed I was the finest tool ever created by a great civilization. Now, I have learned that I am a mistake cobbled together by paranoid thieves who were terrified of their own mediocrity. I don’t know how to feel, except reckless.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

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“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“The sun was coming out, and steam rose up off every jutting muddy piece of the land, which sparkled in a great show of democracy. A discarded truck bumper shone just like the sandstone, just like a scrap of metallic insulation and the white of yarrow flowers and the flash of blue jays’ wings, a coil of chicken wire, an old license plate half entombed in mud.”
― Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight

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