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Herman Melville
“Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about—however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same wayâ€� either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

John Fowles
“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me”
John Fowles, The Collector

Jared Diamond
“Children in the New Guinea highlands have the swollen bellies characteristic of a high-bulk but protein-deficient diet. New Guineans old and young routinely eat mice, spiders, frogs, and other small animals that peoples elsewhere with access to large domestic mammals or large wild game species do not bother to eat. Protein starvation is probably also the ultimate reason why cannibalism was widespread in traditional New Guinea highland societies.”
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel

George Bernard Shaw
“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”
George Bernard Shaw, Advice to a Young Critic

Frank Herbert
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
Frank Herbert, Dune

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281 books | 3 friends

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200 books | 5 friends

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243 books | 2 friends

Sherita...
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Jules W...
328 books | 7 friends

Xochitl...
402 books | 4 friends

Phebe Losa
238 books | 1 friend

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