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“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Every good story needs a villain.
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Legendary
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Legendary
“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“This country has a long history of defining its generations by the conflicts that should have killed them.”
― American War
― American War
“It seemed sensible to crave safety, to crave shelter from the bombs and the Birds and the daily depravity of war. But somewhere deep in her mind an idea had begun to fester-perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence-a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?”
― American War
― American War
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