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“Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.”
― All the King's Horses [Semiotext(e) / Native Agents]
― All the King's Horses [Semiotext(e) / Native Agents]
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”
― The Savage Detectives
― The Savage Detectives
“I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do”
― Education of a Felon
― Education of a Felon
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