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David O'Dowd is currently reading

L'Étranger

by Albert Camus

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David’s Quotes

“If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
― RuPaul

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“The stupidity/pleasure axis I apply to popular artists: how much pleasure they give versus how stupid one has to become to receive said pleasure.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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