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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

by Séamas O'Reilly

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The Spinning Heart: The award-winning bestseller, the ‘Irish Book of the Decade’

by Donal Ryan

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Economical Writing: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

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“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes

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“Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: facism, freedom, grammar, individuality, language, politics

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“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

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