“...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― The Velveteen Rabbit
― The Velveteen Rabbit
“And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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