Books, Nature, Quotes

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God help us. We're putting the cart before the horse and talking big.

For the Love of My Name - Lakshmi Persaud

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Robert Augustus's strategy is to play to people's fears, then present himself as the healer.

For the Love of My Name - Lakshmi Persaud

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This call to sameness, our AUL frequently explained, was essential to nation building, the formation of community. The word community meant sameness. Differences were disruptive and should be abandoned. The idea put forward by Country Mayans that differences could be expansive, enlarging, creative was quickly smothered by our AUL, was seen as near treason, too threatening to be allowed.

For the Love of My Name - Lakshmi Persaud

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This was deeply disturbing...to realise what you believed was your own special place was never really yours, but belonged to everyone; to begin to suspect that it is the monopoly you enjoyed that made you appear larger, and that the differences you placed such high value on were not inherent within you, but thrust upon you by privilege, is too much a displacement of your worth.

For the Love of My Name - Lakshmi Persaud

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"Trust is the most important thing one has, Maximus," I said warmly. "When it leaves, life is a barren plain..."

For the Love of My Name - Lakshmi Persaud

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The grave whither thou goest there is nothing, therefore for what wilt thou die? Moreover for what wilt thou kill?

For the Love of My Name - Lakshmi Persaud

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The wearer becomes the mask... It is inevitable... the mask is chosen by the wearer. With time wearer and mask are one.

For the Love of My Name - Lakshmi Persaud

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Stay the fuck off my computer and my Microsoft word and get your ideas elsewhere---and NO, you COULDN'T write MY work of Shirley Holmes, because it's in a horde of PAPER notebooks....DUH!

Are you okay? You seem to be going through something. Maybe invest in therapy? Stay strong bestie, rambling incoherently to strangers on the internet is not it.

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“I feel obliged to point out,” Tuf repeated, “that a rather large carnivorous dinosaur has appeared in the corridor behind you, and is presently attempting to sneak up on us. He is not doing a very good job of it.”

The Plague Star - George R. R. Martin

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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe Valley Mystery - Arthur Conan Doyle

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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe Valley Mystery -Arthur Conan Doyle

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Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity - Arthur Conan Doyle

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“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity - Arthur Conan Doyle

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“This is indeed a mystery,” I remarked. “What do you imagine that it means?” “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

A Scandal in Bohemia - Arthur Conan Doyle

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I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his process of deduction. “When I hear you give your reasons,” I remarked, “the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good as yours.” “Quite so,” he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing himself down into an armchair. “You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.” “Frequently.” “How often?” “Well, some hundreds of times.” “Then how many are there?” “How many? I don’t know.” “Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point.

A Scandal in Bohemia - Arthur Conan Doyle

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“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.”

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab

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Homesick—Henry knows that one is supposed to mean sick for home, not from it, but it still feels right. He loves his family, he does. He just doesn’t always like them. Doesn’t like who he is around them.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab