Emily

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Emily’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

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And so we must remember that illness is not only a biomedical phenomenon, but also a constructed one, and how we imagine leprosy or OCD or tuberculosis matters.

Dead and Alive: Essays

by Zadie Smith

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The Holy or the Broken

by Alan Light

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Emily’s Quotes

“Man, it would seem, does not evolve; he accumulates. (“Prehistoric Eyes”)”
― Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

tags: history

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“But honesty was a dull blade to take into a knife fight with Richard Nixon -- who was simply willing to lie.”
― Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

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“This fear [of commitment] is founded on a lucid and even wise apprehension of reality: the knowledge of the transience of things and feelings, of our inability to master them, of the risk that we may no longer be tomorrow who we are today, which also goes for the other person. But such lucidity and wisdom are paralyzing: if you listened to them, you wouldn’t say yes to anything… “Nine Columns for an Italian Magazine”
― Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words: Essays

tags: fear

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“To read these multiple images we must learn to suffer the ridiculous image to disclose itself within the tragic, the mythic in the trivial, the ironic in the poignant. You do not read Ulysses; you watch the words. (“Joyce’s Forest of Symbols”)”
― Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

tags: joyce

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“Over time, we all become committed to a version of the story of our lives. Simplification and repetition solidify the account, and we tend to stick with that identity. But that is old news.”
― Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

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