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“A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at”

“This is not a good year. But it has witnesses. When you see them protest the powerful, since who else does, they stand like flagpoles outside the courthouse after a northeaster. They came with the wrong shoes for revolution. Still, they showed up.”

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Author:Ilya Kaminsky

“Novels aren’t about heroes. They’re about us. The novel is a literary form that arose at the same time as the middle class in Europe, those people of small business and property who are neither peasant nor aristocrat, and it has always treated of the middle class. Both lyric and epic poetry grew out of a time that was elitist, a time that believed in the innate rate of royalty to rule and the rest of us to amount to not very much. Hardly surprising, then, that both forms lean toward the aristocratic in subject matter and treatment. The novel, on the other hand, isn’t about them; it’s about us.”

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Book:How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

Source: How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

“The company's stellar growth revived more than a few economic sectors, as well as a few neighborhoods.”

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Book:Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

Source: Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

“So it seems the case that plenty of everyday people are in deed 'hate-filled' (but it's unreleased) - the beast within is caged - until they unleash it, this secret, in 'agreement', on some common foe, and though like a freer bill, the pay is still rage.”

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Author:Criss Jami