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Philip Roth
“The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.”
Philip Roth, The Human Stain

Tom Wolfe
“The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow.”
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

Philip Roth
“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
Philip Roth, American Pastoral

Margaret Mead
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead

Ernest Hemingway
“No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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