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Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

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“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude

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“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: repression, strength

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“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

tags: life

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Reading every Kurt Vonnegut novel and short story collection....in the order is was written!

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