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Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of “wrong” ideas.
“It was the way he felt in the last few days before beginning a new book, when he understood that the inevitable could not be put off much longer, that he would soon be out on the wire again, clutching his balance-pole and riding his stupid little unicycle.”
― Desperation
― Desperation
“Belief is the enemy.”
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“There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
― The Place of Dead Roads
― The Place of Dead Roads
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress
“If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.”
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