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I watched the Amazon adaptation and then moved to the books just to compare and JESUS, is there some Poe's Law style thing where 'critique' of sadism and misogyny and homophobia are just exactly the same as sadism and misogyny and homophobia. The art
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“Show me a man who has enjoyed his school days and I’ll show you a bully and bore.”
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“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different. ”
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are. They are different. ”
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“The saddest thing is a little girl who is told by her own mother and father that she will never be pretty.
And then they open the front door, and on the porch is a little white suitcase, with all of her things in it.”
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And then they open the front door, and on the porch is a little white suitcase, with all of her things in it.”
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“The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day.
And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.”
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And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.”
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“If you think about it even medium-hard, launching a scared little dog into space with no intention of getting it back is a seriously fucked thing to do.”
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