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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Trump firehouse of misinformation
“I have almost become a Mexican! I have learned to like chili colorado and mutton fat. Their foolish ways no longer offend me, their very faults are dear to me. I am their man!”
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
“You did not rescue me,” Casiopea replied. “I opened that chest. Besides, I wasn’t a princess in a tower. I knew I’d get away one way or another, and I was not waiting for a god to liberate me.”
― Gods of Jade and Shadow
― Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Rhythm matters, mood matters, sense of place matters. All these things we talk about with novels.
And I feel that for history and biography, to accomplish what they should accomplish, they have to pay as much attention to these devices as novels do.”
― Working
And I feel that for history and biography, to accomplish what they should accomplish, they have to pay as much attention to these devices as novels do.”
― Working
“But periodically I do explode. Now the good thing about this is that over time, the explosions have gotten smaller and the recovery time is faster, but what is guaranteed is that I will explode. So what I do, because I'm a good hostess (except for the Greg thing) - I provide my guests with bibs. So they don't get my crazy juice all over their nice clothes.”
― Shockaholic
― Shockaholic
“I wish I could explain - and armed with that explanation, somehow excuse, - the seemingly unending, ongoing, relentless, inordinately intense, pathetic fixation I have with my feelings. That wilderness lurking somewhere down south in my bi-solar plexus and, simultaneously, right there in back of my eyes, demanding my attention and eternally taking my emotional temperature. How do I feel? No, really how do I feel? How could I feel? Some other way, surely. By the end of this endless archaeological self-examination, the observer part of your mind doesn't know what it's looking at anymore. Because being both archaeologist and pit is, essentially...don't make me say it...oh fuck. Okay...The pits.”
― Shockaholic
― Shockaholic
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