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Tracy

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Just Kids

by Patti Smith (Goodreads Author)

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Tracy said: " I'm reading this at the moment, and it's a very good book. At first, Ms. Smith's fluttery, syncopated (much like her recitation style) rhythm--which smacked of 'precious artist'--was annoying. But, it didn't take longer than six pages to understand h ...more "

Nov 18, 2010 07:15AM · see review

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Parrot and Olivier in America

by Peter Carey

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Tracy said: " I started this book but then the demands of life and my library forced me to return it before finishing. What I did read, I tingled to immensely. The narrative voice reminds me of a bitter queen relating his oft-told life story with a pitcher of mart ...more "

Nov 16, 2010 08:34AM · see review

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Wanderlust: A History of Walking

by Rebecca Solnit

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Tracy said: " Somebody gets me. I can now add Rousseau and Kierkegaard to my inner neurotic heroes. Now, Lytton Strachey won't be so lonely. ...more "

Sep 16, 2010 08:15AM · see review

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Tracy’s Quotes

“I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.”
― Nikki Giovanni

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“I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man.
(from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)”
― William James

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“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
― Doris Lessing

tags: learning

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“Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.”
― Jane Austen

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