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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Jan 12, 2026 02:57AM

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

Why We're Polarized

by Ezra Klein

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Post-Truth

by Lee McIntyre

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“Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it’s a shame more people don’t switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant but it never is.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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“I believe that baseball is a homeopathic cure for lunacy,” a Dr. S. B. Talcott, superintendent of New York’s State Lunatic Asylum, told the press. “It is a kind of craze in itself, and it gives the lunatics a new kind of crazing to relieve them of the malady which afflicts their minds.”
― Kevin Baker, The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

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“What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She had overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

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“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“The world has no existence whatsoever outside the human imagination. It’s all a ghost, and in antiquity was so recognized as a ghost, the whole blessed world we live in. It’s run by ghosts. We see what we see because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on. Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. One of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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