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“Rumors multiplied like bacteria. One”
― Helter Skelter
― Helter Skelter
“Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. This is astonishing: my hearing does not improve, yet I hear them better and better. I must have butterfly hearing.”
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
― The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
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“Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.”
― Aspects of the Novel
― Aspects of the Novel
“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph. —ELIE WIESEL”
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Davis’s 2024 Year in Books
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