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Victimhood gives you power by allowing you to dismiss negative feedback out of hand, empowering you to accuse the source of bias or ignorance, and allowing you to blame your failings on anything but yourself. Victimhood allows you to feel
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“I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.”
― Wolf Willow
― Wolf Willow
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
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“Women want to be loved like roses. They spend hours perfecting their eyebrows and toes and inventing irresistible curls that fall by accident down the back of their necks from otherwise austere hair-dos. They want their lover to remember the way they held a glass. They want to haunt.”
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
― Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Classics
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Did you ever have to read "Jane Eyre" in high school and just couldn't get through it? Have you ever been confused by the symbolism in "Lord of the Fl ...more
Ask Maria Semple - Tuesday, April 23rd!
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Join us on Tuesday, April 23rd for a special discussion with author Maria Semple! Maria will be discussing her work, including her recently released p ...more
Western Authors & Readers
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The western genre is a niche, and this is the place to gather. Where authors & readers can find each other, and talk about what's new. Post your wes ...more
Ask Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott
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Join us on Tuesday, August 14 for a special discussion with Megan Abbott and Gillian Flynn. Two authors with two of the hottest books of the summer, G ...more
Analyzing Literature
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A group that includes students studying fundamentals of literary interpretation. These are books brought up in our discussions and blog posts.
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