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“The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.”
― Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
― Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
“It was easier to manipulate someone if they didn’t perceive you as a threat.”
― Darling Rose Gold
― Darling Rose Gold
“If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable, I’m going to kill myself, because I won’t know what else to do. You see, politics always change. Stories never do.”
― It
― It
“If it happens, God lets it happen, and when we say 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.”
― The Green Mile
― The Green Mile
“No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.”
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
― Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
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