“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases. The willful filing off of gear teeth, the willful doing without certain obvious pieces of information—”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“It’s no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it’s sanctimony.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
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