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Indicative of this kind of political posturing, just two days later, on May 26, Democratic State Senator Tiara Mack (“she/her”) of Rhode Island, who bills herself as a “queer educator,” “donut lover,” and “abortion fundraiser” on her
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“What he’d really returned to was this noisy, crowded, queuing, waiting, leering world. The world where, as his doctor explained, the only way to survive was through sheer force of will.”
― The Hole
― The Hole
“Indeed, it is the soul [itself ] that is the chief character in Russian fiction.”
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“I’ve seen people living in every kind of house. And do you know what I’ve concluded from that? It’s that people are all the same, everywhere. Yangban, commoner, rich man, beggar, they’re all the same.”
― The Picture Bride
― The Picture Bride
“Rather than working and becoming a socially responsible person, rather than listening to my wife's lectures, I wanted to be as idle as the idlest animal on earth. I wanted to cast off as much as possible the meaningless mask of humanity.
I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.”
― The Wings
I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.”
― The Wings
“Though the 20th century saw horrific genocides inspired by Nazi pseudoscience about genetics and race, it also saw horrific genocides inspired by Marxist pseudoscience about the malleability of human nature. The real threat to humanity comes from totalizing ideologies and the denial of human rights, rather than a curiosity about nature and nurture.”
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Barry’s 2025 Year in Books
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