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Nixonland: The Ri...
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"“The youth’s new slogan [RFK] wrote… was ‘escalation without participation’—or at any rate without *me*. This was something Richard Nixon, with his gift for looking below social surfaces to see and exploit subterranean truths that broiled underneath, understood. The future belonged to the politician who could tap the ambivalence, the nameless dread, the urge to make it all go away…”" — Nov 12, 2026 04:40PM

 
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"The plot of this is so fun. Just wish Jane’s prose didn’t read like an exceptional creepypasta" — Nov 07, 2026 07:37AM

 
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“Falling in love for the first time is a completely transcendent experience. It’s like eating pizza-flavored ice cream. Your brain can’t even process that level of joy. Love makes people do crazy things like kill other people or shop at Crate & Barrel. I think on some level it makes us all delusional. Deep down, our whole lives, no matter how low our self-esteem gets, we think, I have a special skill that no one knows about and if they knew they’d be amazed. And then eventually we meet someone who says, “You have a secret special skill.” And you’re like, “I know! So do you!” And they’re like, “I know!” And then you’re like, “We should eat pizza ice cream together.” And that’s what love is. It’s this giant mound of pizza-flavored ice cream and delusion”
― Mike Birbiglia

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