Jim Snowden
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in Santa Monica, The United States
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The Summer of Long Knives
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2013
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Dismantle the Sun
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2012
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Coming Unglued: Six Stories about Things Falling Apart
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2011
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Blood Promises and Other Commitments
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
― Finnegans Wake
― Finnegans Wake
“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.”
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
“This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.”
― The Ascent of Man
― The Ascent of Man
“A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
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