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Book cover for 1984
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present ...more
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David Sedaris
“July 7, 1995 New York Someone stopped Mitch on the street last night and said, “I need another seventy-five cents so I can buy a cheeseburger. How about helping me?” Mitch said, “Get it without the cheese,” and continued walking”
David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries

John Steinbeck
“When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses. In fact, they come to believe the witness causes the trouble.”
John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America

John Steinbeck
“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”
John Steinbeck

David Sedaris
“Eternally Weeps the Groundhog.”
David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries

Paul Theroux
“It was Muriel Spark, in her novel Memento Mori: “If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”
Paul Theroux, On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey – A Humanizing Exploration of the US-Mexico Border, Immigration Debate, and the Layered World of a Region in Conflict

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