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“There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I’d like to have a word with him. Three words actually: WHAT THE FUCK?!”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“That a delicacy for the pampered was acquired through brutality was hardly news. By any civilized standard, it was how luxury ought to be measured - wealth meant nothing if it didn't create suffering. Because that standard liberal whine that the rich were cushioned from life's harsh realties was laughable ignorance: the rich created those realities, and made sure they kept on happening. That was what kitchens were for, along prisons, factories and public transport.”
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“The public was like one of those huge Pacific jellyfish; one enormous, pulsating mass of indifference, drifting wherever the current carried it; an organism without a motive, ambition or original sin to call its own, but which somehow believed, in whatever passed for its brain, that it chose its own leaders and had a say in its own destiny.”
― Real Tigers
― Real Tigers
“The only reason for the absence of a sign requiring entrants to abandon all hope is that, as every office worker knows, it’s not the hope that kills you. It’s knowing it’s the hope that kills you that kills you.”
― Real Tigers
― Real Tigers
“INFORMATION IS A TART—INFORMATION is anybody’s. It reveals as much about those who impart it as it teaches those who hear. Because information, ever the slut, swings both ways. False information—if you know it’s false—tells you half as much again as the real thing, because it tells you what the other feller thinks you don’t know, while real information, the copper-bottomed truth, is worth its weight in fairy-dust. When you have a source of real information, you ought to forsake all others and snuggle down with it for good. Even though it’ll never work out, because information, first, last and always, is a tart.”
― The List
― The List
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