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There’s this book club phenomenon — my mother-in-law is in a book club and now my wife is in a book club — and so I’ve heard any number of people say they get the “gist” of books. They haven’t read the book. They say, “I read enough to get the gist.” Just, no. Don’t. …

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What appears at first to be an absence of emotion then appears to be a need to control overwhelming emotion that is apt to surface without warning. The Beauty and the Costs of Extreme Altruism | The Nation Source: thenation.com

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin: “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it h…” Source: goodreads.com