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“It was not the man’s brain that was speaking; it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.”
― Animal Farm and 1984
― Animal Farm and 1984
“Next to selfishness, the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory, is want of mental cultivation.”
― Utilitarianism
― Utilitarianism
“From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.”
― 1984
― 1984
“And yet something had changed, since it was back to my cell that I went to wait for the next day . . . as if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent.”
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“What if the Negro people be wooed from a strife for righteousness, from a love of knowing, to regard dollars as the be-all and end-all of life? What if to the Mammonism of America be added the rising Mammonism of the re-born South, and the Mammonism of this South be reinforced by the budding Mammonism of its half-wakened black millions?”
― The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois: Annotated and Illustrated Edition
― The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois: Annotated and Illustrated Edition
James’s 2025 Year in Books
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