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“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
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“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“...in real life I always seem to have a hard time winding up a conversation or asking somebody to leave, and sometimes the moment becomes so delicate and fraught with social complexity that I'll get overwhelmed trying to sort out all the different possible ways of saying it and all the different implications of each option and will just sort of blank out and do it totally straight -- 'I want to terminate the conversation and not have you be in my apartment anymore' -- which evidently makes me look either as if I'm very rude and abrupt or as if I'm semi-autistic and have no sense of how to wind up a conversation gracefully...I've actually lost friends this way.”
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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