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lets-get-lit · 2 months

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

#quotes #books #literature #lit #classics #academia #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #book #book quotes #quotation #Maya Angelou #Memoir #Nonfiction #Biography #Autobiography #I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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poisonedsequin · 1 year

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Becoming by Michelle Obama

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thepursuitofunderstanding · 8 months

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There is, after all, no harsher bitterness than that of a person who is his own worst enemy.

Carl Jung

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whoreshippingbooks · 8 months

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"Once I hit my head on concrete and saw saints, oranges, dizzy blood. My skull almost split like a cleaved fruit. To be taken seriously a woman has to become nothing but a wound."

— Brynne Rebele-Henry, "Self-biography as a false saint" from Autobiography of a Wound

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deadpresidents · 4 months

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deadpresidents.tumblr.com/POTUS_Books

Okay, I finished the list of recommended books about each individual President! As, I've mentioned, I had to break it up into more installments than I had hoped because of Tumblr's weird limits, but I did it and it's on the internet now forever.

Although, I couldn't fit everything in one post, I did make a page (linked above) that has the links to each group of Presidents. That page of links is also linked on the homepage of my blog (deadpresidents.tumblr.com).

The list is not definitive. I'm sure I forgot some awesome books. I definitely got carried away with the more recent Presidents and couldn't limit myself to one or two suggestions, so I'll eventually go back and add more recommended books to the earlier Presidents.

deadpresidents.tumblr.com/POTUS_Books

#Books #Books About Presidents #History #Presidential History #Presidents #Presidency #Book Suggestions #Book Recommendations #POTUS Books #Presidential Books #Presidential Biographies #Presidential Autobiographies #White House #POTUS #deadpresidents

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bellzsad · 7 months

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put reasonings in comments/reblogs!!

#books #genre #romance #fantasy #realistic-fiction #non fiction #wattpad #ao3 #fanfiction #fanfic #dystopian #thriller #mystery #crime #poetry #autobiography #biography #drama

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omg-hellgirl · 1 month

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In America then, if you had long hair, you were a faggot as well as a freak. They would shout across the street, “Hey, fairies!"

Keith Richards, Life.

#the rolling stones #keith richards #old rockstar #classic rock #rockstar gf #sixties #60s music #60s rock #60s #book quotes #quotes #autobiography #biography #life #life by keith richards #rockstar #rocknroll #rock n roll #rock

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gothicwidowsworld · 7 months

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The F1 bookshelf is up with two new additions this evening. Mr Lando Norris & Mr George Russell welcome to the collection 📚

#f1 #autobiographies #biographies #jackie stewart #lewis hamilton #david coulthard #jenson button #nigel mansell #alain prost #mark Webber #guenther steiner #Damon hill #formula one

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dk-thrive · 4 months

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But I know now a person always exceeds and resists the limits of a story about them, and no matter how widely we set the boundaries, their subjectivity spills over, drips at the edges, then rushes out completely. People are, it seems, too complicated to sit still inside a narrative, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying, desperately trying, to compact a life into pages.

— Catherine Lacey, Biography of X: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 21, 2023)

#catherine lacey #x #stiry #biography #autobiography

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quotesonquotes · 2 months

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"I didn't know my alphabets and didn't know how to count or identify colors. My father also had a drinking problem and spent most of the money he earned to maintain his alcohol habit."

Dadisi Mwende Netifnet

#Dadisi Mwende Netifnet #Poet #Writing #Quotes #biography #autobiography #Dadisi #Text #Ad #Sponsorship #family #problems #learning #alphabets #book recommendations #alcohol

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poisonedsequin · 1 year

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Becoming by Michelle Obama

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thepursuitofunderstanding · 8 months

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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

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jenni3penny · 2 months

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FEBRUARY 2024: READING LIST

Lavender House, Lev AC Rosen: 4.50/5.0 Fiction & LGBTQIA+, 274pgs

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done, 3.75/5.0, Schechter & Powell: Graphic Novel & Biographical, 224pgs

Heartstopper: Vol. 2, Alice Oseman: 3.50/5.0, Graphic Novel & LGBTQIA+, 320pgs

Moloka'i, Alan Brennert: 3.75/5.0, Fiction & Historical, 416pgs

Vanessa and Her Sister, Priya Parmar: 4.50/5.0, Fiction & Biographical, 384pgs

Wit, Margaret Edson: 3.75/5.0, Play & Literary, 85pgs

Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell, Bell & Marler: 4.25/5.0, Autobiographical & Literary, 593pgs

Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher: 4.0/5.0, Fiction & Fantasy, 243pgs

The Sisters’ Arts, Diane Filby Gillespie: 4.0/5.0, Biographical & Literary, 376pgs

Snapshots of Bloomsbury, Maggie Humm: 4.25/5.0, Biographical & Literary, 240pgs

There Is Always Universe, Tiffany Aurora: 3.0/5.0, Poetry & Literary, 102pgs

Blue Horses, Mary Oliver: 3.50/5.0, Poetry & Literary, 96pgs

The Cassandra, Sharma Shields: 3.75/5.0, Fiction & Historical, 304pgs

Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss: 3.50/5.0, Fiction & Historical, 152pgs

Canto for a Gypsy, Martin Cruz Smith: 3.25/5.0, Fiction & Thriller, 176pgs

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MOST ENTERTAINING: Vanessa and Her Sister & Lavender House

LEAST ENTERTAINING: Canto for a Gypsy & There Is Always Universe

PAGES PER FEBRUARY: 3,985 (+94)

PAGES YTD: 7,876

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the-myrna-loy-blog · 4 months

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"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."

~ Myrna Loy

#This quote was used as the sub-title of Myrna's autobiography #myrna loy #life lessons #life philosophy #preach!#old hollywood #celebrity biography #myrna loy quote

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state-of-franklin · 9 months

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All the people that think Oppenheimer is a propaganda movie actually make me laugh, because it is propaganda! Just not the nationalistic/patriotism kind.

It’s literally about a guy that lives to regret his most renowned invention, who wished more than anything it wouldn’t become a weapon, and when faced with his own guilt is told to suck it up and fake a smile.

This movie is trying to get the audience to understand the plight of the scientist that feels like he invented death. He was manipulated time after time by the US military and government, and truly was used for his genius more than he “used” anyone.

It is a 3 hour movie of pain, regret, and opposition between scientific progress and moral implications of doing so.

Don’t shit on a fucking movie because you read a tumblr post about it. Do your own fucking research and maybe go see the movie before you lay such harsh judgement on it.

#oppenheimer #oppenheimer movie #cillian murphy #propaganda #nationalism #fascism #movie review #it’s actually a truly thought provoking and interesting movie #it is one of the only movies that brings to light the idea that the US government is using scientists #and by doing so teaches the wide majority of us citizens that they cannot just blindly trust the military and their government #it teaches a new narrative that the old folks of this country haven’t considered because they’re so knee deep in nationalism #really this movie has so many benefits #but first and foremost it is a biography #(or narrated autobiography?)#but like it’s also not #ALSKDKKDKFKFKF kd #please just go see the movie before you make huge jusegenent passes on it

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quoting-life · 1 year

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It seems like such a paradox to me that human beings are both great adapters to change and terrified by it at the same time. So often we drift through life bound by the poor decisions we've made in the past, too afraid of the uncertainty that comes with challenging our status quo. We find ourselves stuck on a ship that is headed full speed to a place we're pretty sure we don't want to go, but we also don't want to deal with the discomfort of jumping. So we say nothing, watching helplessly as we sail toward our doom like silent prisoners of our own past.

Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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