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a plate heaped with some kind of jam-filled cookies, and then the whole room was full of the Briarwood women, all gulping sun tea and munching cookies as they watched the light gleam off President Truman’s glasses.
What an american moment
“There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Ash’s 2025 Year in Books
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446 books
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493 books
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