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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion

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The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

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Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

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“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
― H.L. Mencken

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“I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.”
― Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers

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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

tags: misattributed

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“You have to know human behaviour… And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.”
― Tony Gilroy

tags: behavior, people, psychology, tony-gilroy, writing

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