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DNF. Maybe I'm getting over-sensitive at my advanced age of 28 but Tampa was too much for me. The out-and-out pornographic sex scenes between teacher and underage student seemed way too gratuitous and indulgent to justify whatever point Nutting was t
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“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky”
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“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
― The Cocktail Party
― The Cocktail Party
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
― Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
― Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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