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The World Must Conform to Meopinions, ideas, thoughts, & reviews Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels.com No, that’s not me saying that. It’s a phenomenon I’ve seen over and over again on social media. Some people have trouble realizing that, …

This morning's opinion post. I haven't written one in a while but I've had a few in mind recently.

The World Must Conform to Me

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Good books are over your head; that’s why they’re good. So reach and pull yourself up to their level.

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First published in 1724 under the title The Fortunate Mistress this was Defoe’s last novel.

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“…let me dye a lingring death, it will be remembred a great deale longer... For my soules health I beg my bodies torment"

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This novel, I opine, captures the crucial difference between external liberation and internal reconstruction. You can walk out of prison, but the greater challenge is getting the prison out of yourself.

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Reading allows you to gain a larger share of information, understanding, and knowledge about the world.

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Reading; a wise and thoughtful way to spend your time.

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A scholar recovers from illness and, abandoning societal constraints and his wife, pursues his own desires and a profound, amoral freedom.

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“..be a person who is fearless, incorrigible, free. A friend of free expression and the truth. And intent on calling a fig a fig and a trough a trough..”

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Blog | Donald E. Brown Disillusioned With Life | The novel "Eugene Onegin" was written while Pushkin was in forced exile. He wrote nine chapters in lyrics, but before he published it. Pushkin self-

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I'm choosing a book for a new reading group, to follow Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I'm thinking Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time - I'd love to know other readers' thoughts on it.
Any #WomenWritersNet read it?
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An autocracy has been built on the structures and norms of the American gov’t: concentration of power in the executive branch, and the marriage of $ and politics.

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I recently came across this observation which in the winter of life’s season certainly caught my attention: “Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, and the world will continue on without you.”
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Yes, another blog. This one filled with my upcoming events. And a bit more. Check it out - or even better, subscribe. More at dedemontgomery.com/2026/03/01/c... #oregonauthors #books #bookgroups #writingcommunity #booksky

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“..my hair was hardening into bristles, my ..skin was roughening to a hide.My toes and fingers…clotted into solid hoofs;”

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) Night Train to Lisbon A philosophical novel about a reserved Swiss classics professor, Raimund Gregorius, who abandons his life after a mysterious encounter, traveling to Lisbon to investigate the so...

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19th-century Russian writers, whose works and lives I have studied since upper school, captured the contradictions pulling Russian society apart.

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Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave. (Jorge Manrique)

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Explore why the early Christian church preferred to promote an image of a man named Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather then a politically conscious revolutionary.
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Book groups? Check out my new book guide for A MAP OF HER OWN. Strong female characters, deeply placed in Pacific NW, dual timeline. Download at dedemontgomery.com/a-map-of-her... #booksky #writingcommunity #bookgroups

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Read to feel at home in the world, to know a little something of the best that has been thought, believed, and created by great minds.

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In his journal for July 10-12, 1841, 13 years before publishing Walden, Thoreau wrote: “A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand.”
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Everything is inverted in Dostoevsky’s Demons: freedom ends in despotism, care turns to hatred, clarity increases blindness.
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Confused about what I write? Each book is perfect to celebrate Oregon's Birthday. (Or any other day). Details at dedemontgomery.com/my-books #PNWbooks #booksky #writingcommunity #bookgroups

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“A mind not agitated by hard questions cannot appreciate the significance of the best answers.” (Mortimer Adler)

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Certain gifted individuals have shown a proclivity for living alone and apart. I so share that sentiment.

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“All struggles Are essentially power struggles, …essentially power struggles…are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) Healthcare Dominance It began with a shared secret at a recent Davos Summit. Five executives, bonded by paranoia over looming antitrust hearings, found common ground in a different vulnerability: the...

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Donald E. Brown (@debrown25) Bowing To Evil The questionable victory was celebrated with bonfires that smelled, faintly, of sulfur. He stood on the stage, his smile revealing a gash of yellowish-white teeth in the spotlights. He...

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