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1846 I did with you what I have done before with those I loved best: I showed them the bottom of the bag, and the acrid dust that rose from it made them choke.
“Daijiro said the group was composed of retired fruit and vegetable wholesalers on a week-long tour of America. They were visiting three places only: Niagara Falls, Las Vegas and Atlanta. “We want to see the history and beauty of America,” Daijiro explained.”
― Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
― Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
“the streets. That’s not a criticism. It’s just a reality.” A senior Obama administration official observed that Biden’s acknowledgment also contained a subtler message: “This country needs to just chill the fuck out and have a boring president.”
― Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
― Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
“Like heavy heads of wheat whispering to each other right before harvest, our murmurs rippled.”
― The Paris Library
― The Paris Library
“The whole dream of democracy,’ he wrote, ‘is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“It seems to me that your sense of other people’s awfulness might be compensating for your own sense of inferiority and fear of rejection. You rationalize the rejection of your peers by telling yourself it comes from other people’s deficiencies rather than your own. They can’t understand your philosophy or your ideas.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
Travis J. Coner’s 2025 Year in Books
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