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"I thought I had left a note as I read earlier in the book…earlier in the year, but I don’t see it now. My note would have said this style is so similar to Lincoln in the Bardo that it doesn’t work well.
But I picked this up again after many months and Saunders’ signature humor, seriousness, skill has enveloped me once again , and made me ill with the knowledge of a world in crisis." — Oct 13, 2026 01:08PM
"I thought I had left a note as I read earlier in the book…earlier in the year, but I don’t see it now. My note would have said this style is so similar to Lincoln in the Bardo that it doesn’t work well.
But I picked this up again after many months and Saunders’ signature humor, seriousness, skill has enveloped me once again , and made me ill with the knowledge of a world in crisis." — Oct 13, 2026 01:08PM
“Better to have been a dickhead and seen it,
than be a cunt all your life and not know it.”
― Hold Your Own
than be a cunt all your life and not know it.”
― Hold Your Own
“That's what I like about the internet-that it gives you time to think about what you want to say before you say it.”
― Eliza and Her Monsters
― Eliza and Her Monsters
“I was in jail 81 days, but after 20 days my brain became completely empty; you need information to stay alive. When there’s no information you’re already dead. It’s a very, very strong test – I think more severe than any physical punishment.
All I wanted was a dictionary, even the simplest one.”
― Ai Weiwei
All I wanted was a dictionary, even the simplest one.”
― Ai Weiwei
“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.”
― Fragmente und Studien. Die Christenheit oder Europa
― Fragmente und Studien. Die Christenheit oder Europa
“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see.”
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