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I finished Joan Didion's South and West the last few mornings over my coffee. Didion, a California native, took a trip through the American South in 1970. This was one of her observations:
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“Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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"i do not traffic in colloquialisms" - Xenk Yendar
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From Tina Fey's Bossypants For some reason(s), I thought of MR the instant I read this:
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Quotes and profound lines
“At a bend in the Ganges, they paused to look at the land they were leaving” the famous epigraph from the Ramayana which gives the stellar title of Malgonkar Manohar's A bend in Ganges .
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my eyes and all is born again.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar |
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I'm currently in the middle of reading James by Percival Everett which is a wonderful retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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