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Oh, and if you’re pissed about the loss of the Library of Alexandria, there was another immeasurable loss in the destruction of Baghdad’s House of Wisdom library. Thus ended both the Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam.
“You whoreson scalawag!" said I. "You flesh-turd dropped stinking from the poxy arsehole of a hare-lipped harlot!”
― Fool
― Fool
“The dull always seek to be clever at the fool's expense, to somehow repay him for his cutting wit, but never are they clever, and often they are cruel.”
― Fool
― Fool
“MY JUVENILE DELINQUENT IS SCREWING YOUR HONOR STUDENT.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”
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“America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed. —AGNES REPPLIER, TIMES AND TENDENCIES”
― American Gods
― American Gods
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