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"Ok, this is getting repetitive but the Spielberg bit is fascinating." — May 25, 2026 11:11PM
"Ok, this is getting repetitive but the Spielberg bit is fascinating." — May 25, 2026 11:11PM
WHENEVER I WOKE UP, night or day, I’d shuffle through the bright marble foyer of my building and go up the block and around the corner where there was a bodega that never closed. I’d get two large coffees with cream and six sugars each,
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“George Washington, several weeks into his presidency in 1789, described in a letter to the United Baptist Churches of Virginia as “the horrors of spiritual tyranny.” Washington was hardly alone: From skeptics like Benjamin Franklin to committed Christians like John Jay, the founders shared John Adams’s view that America was conceived not “under the influence of Heaven” or in conversation with the Creator, but rather by using “reason and the senses.”
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
“Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.”
― The Celebrants
― The Celebrants
“A group of young women bustled past, brushing Marielle’s shoulder. She looked at them wistfully, wishing to be them once again. Young. Happy. Carefree. Was life better then? Or did young people just have the energy to better deal with its crushing disappointments”
― The Celebrants
― The Celebrants
“the Aegean Sea is a vast swathe of inky velvet studded with diamond crystals”
― Argylle
― Argylle
“Per Frau Storz, you could diagnose an evil heart because it made the carrier’s face resemble a “root vegetable.”
― Good Girl
― Good Girl
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