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Up in the Old Hotel

by Joseph Mitchell

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Mar 26, 2026 11:00PM

“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“He turned to her and said, “About time,” when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

tags: public-service, strangers

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“He was a sleaze, a nobody, a former graduate student of English studies.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

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“Will you go back?" asked the Lord of the Gallows. "To America?"
"Nothing to go back for," said Shadow, and as he said it he knew it was a lie.
"Things wait for you there," said the old man. "But they will wait until you return.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: america, going-home, returning

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“De toutes les passions, la seule vraiment respectable me paraît être la gourmandise.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: gourmand, gourmandise, gourmet, passion

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