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"This is a way more considered treatment of fascism as presented in Star Wars than I expected when I picked it up on a huge discount on Amazon. Surprisingly compelling." — Aug 21, 2025 08:15PM
"This is a way more considered treatment of fascism as presented in Star Wars than I expected when I picked it up on a huge discount on Amazon. Surprisingly compelling." — Aug 21, 2025 08:15PM
“People”—Geralt turned his head—“like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe
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“Songs were the place he took his loss and turned it into something else. Which may not have been the same as grieving, but it was something.”
― Petty: The Biography
― Petty: The Biography
“...you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
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