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He had a copy of Mein Kampf (who hadn’t?), but he had never opened it (who had?).
“I don't believe you. You're a liar. Play it fucking loud!”
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“Though Marcus' essay extends over 13 pages of small text, at its core is a very simple premise: Contemporary American fiction has lost its innovative edge and its interest in language as art, and Jonathan Franzen is largely, if not exclusively, to blame.”
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“All divisions in religion arise from ignorance of grammar.”
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“While the two words often arrive sutured together, I think it worthwhile to breathe some space between them, so that one might see “brutal honesty” not as a more forceful version of honesty itself, but as one possible use of honesty. One that doesn’t necessarily lay truth barer by dint of force, but that actually overlays something on top of it—something that can get in its way. That something is cruelty.”
― The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
― The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
“-- Buddhism needs its fucking Nietzsche --”
― The Easy Chain
― The Easy Chain
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