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“Dissonance is the truth about harmony.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Happiness without power, wages without work, a home without frontiers, religion without myth. These characteristics are hated by the rulers because the ruled secretly long to possess them. The rulers are only safe as long as the people they rule turn their longed-for goals into hated forms of evil.”
― Theodor Adorno

“I hope you don’t mind tea in mugs,’ she said, coming in with a tray. ‘I told you I was a slut.”
― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women

“I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.”
― Thomas Pynchon