Welcome to Bookmarker!

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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just a little more

Because you see these low-level foreign workers working two or three jobs, twelve, fourteen, sixteen hours a day, longing for home (a waiter shows me exactly how he likes to hold his two-year-old, or did like to hold her, last time he was home, eight months ago), and think: Couldn't you Haves cut l…

—p.33 The Brain-Dead Megaphone: Essays The New Mecca (21) by George Saunders
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rarefied

What they share most is a desire not to be cast down, down from the realm of the rarefied air, back to where they came from.

on the people controlling the media

—p.17 The Braindead Megaphone (1) by George Saunders
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labile

the students are there voluntarily, and are by definition young and labile and pre-specialized

—p.91 To Try Extra Hard To Exercise Patience, Politeness, and Imagination (67) by Dave Eggers
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