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“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". ”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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For Bob Dylan fans interested in understanding and discussing the literary merits of his work.
Johan’s 2025 Year in Books
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