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Richard Wells
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Somuchanger
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carryingagun and bible
Somanyself-styledJohn Brownsrighteousandragingoncurb sidesstreet cornersgrassy knolls
insideauditoriumsarenasliving rooms
shouting at screenspoking keyboardssmashing glass
locking loading aiming firing
Whathave welostthatdrivesusso?
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Fearcontracts
Angermeetsanger
withguns and drumsanddrones
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| You'll never think about popular Appalachian stereotypes again. This book is a big page-turner, filled with compelling characters, situations that would set Dickens' head a-spinning, great doses of humor, and an overflowing cup of humanity. It's as g ...more | |
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| Eric Vuillard is a brilliant writer who chooses and illuminates fascinating pieces of history. This, however, is hardly a book at all. At I think about 76 pages it makes for a long form essay. His books about Dien Bien Phu, and the Anschluss or so mu ...more | |
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“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
― The Jungle
― The Jungle
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
“Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.”
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