You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
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Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
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[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
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![“Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.” quote by Emma Donoghue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ad/emma-donoghue-1499_children_seriously-i-think-what-all-the-puzzling_2099691.png)
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