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“She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for diversity?”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
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“It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. Whatever else was being denied them out of hate, indifference to the power of their vote, loopholes, simple ignorance, this withdrawal was their own, unpublicized, private. Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they?), there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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