Robert Teeter

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The Wife of Willesden

by Zadie Smith

bookshelves: currently-reading, chaucer, london, plays, women

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Feb 03, 2026 08:47PM

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The Golem of Brooklyn

by Adam Mansbach (Goodreads Author)

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Jitney: A Play

by August Wilson

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“This praise of his strategic abilities was especially pleasing to [Tsar] Nicholas, because, though he was proud of his strategic abilities, at the bottom of his heart he was aware that he had none. And now he wanted to to hear more detailed praise of himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

tags: narcissism, self-delusion

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“My father says that believing or not believing doesn't matter; what is important is speaking with God.”
― Marjorie Agosín, A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile

tags: god

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“Teenagers and truck drivers: We're all on our way to somewhere else.”
― Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In

tags: life-and-living

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“He [Tsar Nicholas I] had done much evil to the Poles. To explain that evil he had to be convinced that all Poles were scoundrels. And Nicholas regarded them as such and hated them in proportion to the evil he had done them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murád

tags: prejudice

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“The deep Chile of the fascists had always been there, beneath the surface, just waiting to emerge. It was the triumph of the arrogant Right, the defeat of the people who believed in that utopian revolution.”
― Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea

tags: fascism

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