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“Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.”

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Matthew Pearl, born on October 2, 1975, is an American novelist known for his historical and mystery novels. His works are characterized by the combination of historical events with fictional stories, creating captivating narratives. more

“All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.”

Thinking Needs Social Term Community Challenges Race Class Practice Danger Standing Folks Ethnicity

Author:Bell Hooks

“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”

World Giving Moving Values Culture Process Community Differences Risk Diversity Findings Safety Meaningful Sameness Shared Values

Book:Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

“If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.”

Ifs May Doe Girl Boys Cases Happy Endings Happily Ever After Ever After Boy Girl Boy Meets Girl

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”

Ifs Thinking World Walks Half Sleepwalking

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”

Universe Involved Granted Materialistic Loving Relationships Materialistic Things

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you find a better life, find comfort again and your breathless smile, and when your beloved face lights up once more at the Western sunrise, be sure what I felt for you was not in vain. Good-bye and have faith, my Tatiana.”

“And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.”

Character Stories Subjects Ought Ugly Ducks Banned Swans Ducklings Ugly Duckling

Author:Russell Brand

“Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."”

World Want Littles Huge Equal Green Casts Forests Grass Hiding Shade Insects Blades Lawns Monotonous Blades Of Grass

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

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