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Judith is Currently Reading

Judith E is currently reading

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

by Jill Lepore

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Butcher's Crossing

by John Williams

bookshelves: classics, currently-reading

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Judith’s Quotes

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: religion, sobriety

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“I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
― Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life

tags: dicks

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“I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing Was the Same

tags: bereavement, grief, love

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