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"This is part of my journey to read all of Cather's works." — Jan 15, 2023 08:32AM
"This is part of my journey to read all of Cather's works." — Jan 15, 2023 08:32AM
“Try to imagine a non-Grove Press America,” said publisher John G. H. Oakes, in a 1999 speech honoring Barney Rosset, “that is, an America where Barney Rosset never made his indelible mark—and you’ll see why it’s easy to call him the
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“Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.”
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― Strip Tease
“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”
― Green Mars
― Green Mars
“Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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