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"Started reading a couple of days ago and by the end of just the intro (granted a rather extensive one) I felt summarily ashamed by my glib attitude towards fascist elements in mass culture/everyday life. Who wont my astrology and Ayurveda books 🤣" — 18 hours, 34 min ago
"Started reading a couple of days ago and by the end of just the intro (granted a rather extensive one) I felt summarily ashamed by my glib attitude towards fascist elements in mass culture/everyday life. Who wont my astrology and Ayurveda books 🤣" — 18 hours, 34 min ago
“I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy."
Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
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“I treat my little heart like a sick child: whatever it wishes for is granted.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“What civilization has done to women’s bodies is no different than what it’s done to the earth, to children, to the sick, to the proletariat; in short, to everything that isn’t supposed to “talk,” and in general to whatever the knowledge-powers of government and management don’t want to hear, which is thus relegated to exclusion from all recognized activity, relegated to the role of a witness.”
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