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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.”
― Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
― Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“I believe in a future where the point of education is not to prepare you for another useless job but for a life well lived.”
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“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"- Rob”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
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