“Yes, that. You’re feeling cognitive dissonance, Jamie. Two contradictory-yet-entirely-valid-within-their-contexts thoughts about the same subject. And humans hate that shit. We hate it so much. The worst answer for us for anything is, ‘It
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“When economic interest is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying to establish a decent and orderly society, but the work of certain groups trying to maintain their privileges, while giving just enough rights and liberties to enough of the people to ensure popular support.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
“But no matter how you die, the world always stays the same.”
― I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
― I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
“An artist's passion shouldn't create passion. An artist's supreme virtue is to be detached and cold.”
― I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
― I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
“He imagined her impressed by his maturity, by his willingness to share her with another man. But this formulation was partial. It did not take into account the fact that she’d loved him, or that he’d broken her heart. It did not consider that her heart might be broken still, or that every time they slept together, it broke a little more.”
― At Night We Walk in Circles
― At Night We Walk in Circles
“Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, “Why, why, why?” Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
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