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Tara Westover è una storica e scrittrice statunitense, il suo libro di memorie Educated ha debuttato al primo posto nella lista dei bestseller del New York Times ed è stato finalista per numerosi premi, incluso il LA Times Book Prize, lo Jean Stein Book Award del PEN America e due premi dal National Book Critics Circle Award. Il New York Times ha indicato Educated come uno dei 10 Migliori Libri del 2018. Westover è stata scelta dal settimanale Time come una delle 100 persone più influenti del 2019. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Settembre 1986
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“I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward.”

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Origine: Educated (2018)

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”

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Educated (2018)

“The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education.”

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Tara Westover libro Educated

Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 40, “Educated” (p. 329)

“The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you’re having one, it is somehow not obvious to you.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 37, “Gambling for Redemption” (p. 307)

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 36, “Four Long Arms, Whirling” (p. 301)

“I decided to experiment with normality.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 24, “A Knight, Errant” (p. 212)

“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 24, “A Knight, Errant” (p. 207)

“Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 23, “I’m from Idaho” (p. 203)

“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 22, “What We Whispered and What We Screamed” (p. 197)

“By the end of it, I had finally begun to grasp something that should have been immediately apparent: that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 20, “Recitals of the Fathers” (p. 180; the reference is to the Civil Rights Movement)

“Suspended between fear of the past and fear of the future, I recorded the dream in my journal. Then, without any explanation, as if the connection between the two were obvious, I wrote, I don’t understand why I wasn’t allowed to get a decent education as a child.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 18, “Blood and Feathers” (p. 163)

“I don’t know how long I sat there reading about it, but at some point I’d read enough. I leaned back and stared at the ceiling. I suppose I was in shock, but whether it was the shock of learning about something horrific, or the shock of learning about my own ignorance, I’m not sure.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 17, “To Keep it Holy” (p. 157; the reference is to the Holocaust)

“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 6, “Shield and Buckler” (p. 62)

“The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 6, “Shield and Buckler” (p. 60)

“The irony was that if Dad was bipolar—or had any of a dozen disorders that might explain his behavior—the same paranoia that was a symptom of the illness would prevent its ever being diagnosed and treated. No one would ever know.”

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Origine: Educated (2018), Chapter 3, “Cream Shoes” (p. 30)

““To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. ””

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““To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn't have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke's, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble””

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