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On any page of Stifter that you care to pick there is so much kitsch that several generations of poetry-hungry nuns and nurses can be satiated with it,
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Edward Gibbon
“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

William H. Gass
“it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.”
William H. Gass, The Tunnel

William Gaddis
“Merry Christmas! the man threatened.”
William Gaddis, The Recognitions

J.G. Ballard
“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
J.G. Ballard

Thomas Pynchon
“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
Thomas Pynchon

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