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Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul Rudnick
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As a rule, the boys who despised gym class and intramural soccer will later prize and pay dearly for athletic wear, as if it was a more rugged, locker room–seduction Chanel.
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“The "best" book is not necessarily the canonical one.”
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“I wonder if I would have been braver if I'd seen myself not in a bar first, but in a book”
― Lev A.C. Rosen, Rough Pages
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“no fairy tale setting ... holds up under a microscope”
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“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
tags: critical-thinking, dogma, fanaticism, fundamentalism, religion
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“I sometimes wish I could hate a place as easily as other people instead of hating the people themselves.”
― Kyle Dillon Hertz, The Lookback Window
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