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Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God.
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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