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There Are Rivers in the Sky

by Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)

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The Collected Stories of John McGahern

by John McGahern

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Pet Shop Boys, Literally

by Chris Heath

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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

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“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

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“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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“For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero

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