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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“Of course I was being sincere, but you can be sincere and be wrong, or in any case you can persuade yourself that you’re wrong as sincerely as you persuaded yourself to the contrary. “Nine Columns for an Italian Magazine”
― Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words: Essays

tags: love

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“And I cried about all the things people can not understand when other people say them. I cried over the miracle that they could understand anything at all. I cried for all the things I had said to other people that had been misunderstood because I, not knowing, had said them wrong. I cried with joy about those times when someone and I had nodded together, grinning over an understanding, real or wished for.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

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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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“I find it interesting that even here, in the supposedly pure world of science, we feel the weight of historical forces pressing in upon discovery. Our desire to create outsiders, the competition for resources among communities that would be better off cooperating, and our long history of warfare all come together in this moment of discovery.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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