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“Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”
― Titus Andronicus
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”
― Titus Andronicus
“AMERICANISM, n. 1) The desire to purge America of all those qualities which make it a more or less tolerable place in which to live; 2) The ability to simultaneously kiss ass, follow your boss's orders, swallow a pay cut, piss in a bottle, cower in fear of job loss, and brag about your freedom.”
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“Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Nabokov in Three Years
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This group will be reading Vladimir Nabokov's entire fictional oeuvre (plus his autobiography and two collections of essays) in chronological order. W ...more
The Year of Reading Proust
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