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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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sedulous

exhorted to overcome addiction through willpower and sedulous self-monitoring

my instinct is to think it means seductive or seditious but I'm training myself to remember it as careful

—p.96 The Insane Idea (85) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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ebullience

her most ebullient praise

—p.94 The Insane Idea (85) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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a lie that we hinge our entire lives on advice/writing

One of the writers remarks that the best advice he ever got about character development was to ask oneself: What is the lie this character harbors about himself? “All of us have a lie that we hinge our entire lives on,” he says.

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There is a long moment of silence, and then the woman who …

—p.65 Contemporaries (57) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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gloaming

the kind of mauvish gloaming hour

—p.57 Contemporaries (57) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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sex as a kind of spiritual salve

[...] Like the thirtysomethings of that film, the residents of Tarbox are too old by the time the country splits apart to join the psychedelic bandwagon, too settled to develop anything like a political imagination. Instead, they use sex as a kind of spiritual salve, a way of keeping their fear of …

—p.53 On Reading Updike (48) by Meghan O'Gieblyn