Indicação do livro Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
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Coleção de ensaios de uma escritora fundamental na literatura norte-americana contemporânea; com destaque para “On Self Respect” — uma meditação sobre o que significa viver bem. Um trecho: “The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others — who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara, is something people with courage can do without. To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable documentary that deals with one’s failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for every screening. Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”

(ilustração de Lisa Congdon)

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