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“Everything is nothing, with a twist.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“At the age of forty the life you have lived so far, always pro tem, has for the first time become life itself, and this reappraisal swept away all dreams, destroyed all your notions that real life, the one that was meant to be, the great deeds you would perform, was somewhere else. When you were forty you realized it was all here, banal everyday life, fully formed, and it always would be unless you did something. Unless you took one last gamble.”
― A Man in Love
― A Man in Love
“But in the man and his presidency Dowd had seen the tragic flaw. In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, crying “Fake News,” the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president: “You’re a fucking liar.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
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