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“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
“For the left, employers were the exploiters. The New Right replied that the true exploiters were federal bureaucrats grasping for tax dollars, and the media elites who shoved 1960s libertinism down Middle America’s throats. New Rightists were obsessed with what were known as the “social issues”—crime, government intrusion into family life, sexual mores, the right to own a gun. Reagan’s establishmentarian presidential campaign manager John Sears dismissed them as the “emotional issues.” But the New Right reveled in emotion—particularly, the emotion of resentment.”
― Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
― Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
“Silence gradually spread its great, fragile butterfly wings across the ward. The sun had disappeared, replaced by grey and rain. This particular month of July was reading the script for March.”
― How I Became Stupid
― How I Became Stupid
“The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.”
― Downtown Owl
― Downtown Owl
“The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling with living noise makers, mutilated erections, horror.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“What we expected of the Obama administration was beyond what the framework of the presidency allowed.”
― American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
― American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
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