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“It was a genuine revelation, you see," said Aimée to the baron. "They can be killed. The real assholes can be killed.”
― Fatale
― Fatale
“The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.”
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“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Snow Country
― Snow Country
“It's really hard to put into words things that are just a little bit not okay.”
― Earthlings
― Earthlings
“Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to watch television or go to the movies, nor will he eventually read Book-of-the-Month Club selections, because they are ludicrous and dull. As a young man, then, he will effectually be excluded from all of Madison Avenue and Hollywood and most of publishing, because what moves him or what he creates is quite irrelevant to what is going on: it is too fine. His father has brought him up as a dodo.”
― Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System
― Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System
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