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Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

by Jon Wiederhorn (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 09, 2025 08:39PM

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Altmann's Tongue: Stories and a Novella

by Brian Evenson

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“Mercy is in the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

tags: forgiveness, mercy

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“Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison. Some part of you which you deeply value lies forever impaled at a crossroads you can no longer find and never forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

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“Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina by observing: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Business is the opposite. All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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“I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human. I want to be as old as I can be.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

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“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: delusion, honesty, integrity, psychology, self-esteem, self-knowledge, subconscious, unconscious

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