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"This one bums me out so much I have been listening to it in spurts." — Aug 03, 2026 11:36AM
"This one bums me out so much I have been listening to it in spurts." — Aug 03, 2026 11:36AM
“It takes six years to learn to live together, and get over the most furious fits of wishing you hadn't married him, and hating him, but after that he becomes a habit and a property and you stop bothering about it.”
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“Whoever enters into opposition against a dictatorship must accept civil war as a means. Whoever shies away from civil war must abandon opposition and accept the dictatorship.”
― Darkness at Noon
― Darkness at Noon
“Wherever collective memory based on selective use of the past holds sway, everyone thinks alike. When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks at all. A society where no one thinks at all is little more than a frenetic and debauched, if picturesque, village bazaar.”
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“What would the natural, logical fruit of heightened consciousness be if not inertia, by which I mean consciously sitting with folded arms! I mentioned that before. And I repeat it again and again: spontaneous people and men of action can act precisely because they are limited and stupid.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“Kertbeny coined 'heterosexual' and 'homosexual' as a pair on purpose: having two marked categories instead of only one generates a certain amount of equality, which was precisely his point. The paired words suggest that both 'homo' and 'hetero' are marked categories whose specialization sets them off from the unmarked human universal, the undifferentiated 'sexual'.”
― Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
― Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
The Pale King
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DFW - The Broom of the System (group read)
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