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Judith is Currently Reading

Judith E is currently reading

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Life on a Mediterranean Island

by Lawrence Durrell

bookshelves: greece, non-fiction, currently-reading

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The Weight of Ink

by Rachel Kadish (Goodreads Author)

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Judith’s Quotes

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: religion, sobriety

818 likes

“I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves.”
― Colum McCann, Dancer

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“In the end, though, freedom depends upon citizens who are able to make a distinction between what is true and what they want to hear. Authoritarianism arrives not because people say that they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts and desires.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: cheese, dip, dunce, food, history, writing

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