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“I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?”
― Never Any End to Paris
― Never Any End to Paris

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
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