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“Once he’d been set off inside, it mattered so much that he was somehow afraid to show how much it mattered.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“This volume probably contains more promises and less evidence per page than has any publication since the invention of printing,” the Nobel physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi wrote in his review of Dianetics for Scientific American.”
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
“Another thing he laid in when he’d committed himself to one last marijuana vacation was petroleum jelly.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Hubbard mentions an organization he calls SMERSH, a name taken from James Bond novels. Hubbard describes it as a “hidden government …that aspired to world domination!” Psychiatry is the dominating force behind this sinister institution.”
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
James Cooper’s 2025 Year in Books
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