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The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)

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Between Two Fires

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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

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after the first fat flush of life, time eats away at things: it rusts machinery, it matures animals to become hairless and featherless, and it withers plants.

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“Down the mountain we shall go and down the passes, and as the valleys open the world will open, Utopia, where men and women are happy and laws are wise, and where all that is tangled and confused in human affairs has been unravelled and made right.”
― H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia

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“Books are ports of entry to perceiving the experience of life differently, and that’s as powerful as it gets—that’s alchemy.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: Personal essays exploring gender outside the binary and carving out space.

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“I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them”
― Maurice Sendak

tags: childhood, fantasy, fear, imagination, life

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“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
― Émile Zola

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“The old junky has found a vein... blood blossoms in the dropper like a Chinese flower... he push home the heroin and the boy who jacked off fifty years ago shine immaculate through the ravaged flesh, fill the outhouse with the sweet nutty smell of young male lust.”
― William Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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