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"Wow, the opening of this book is my new favorite; at par with Disgrace and My Struggle (Knausgaard).
@Dan Kauppi, you're right -- this is great so far." — Dec 06, 2017 07:34PM
"Wow, the opening of this book is my new favorite; at par with Disgrace and My Struggle (Knausgaard).
@Dan Kauppi, you're right -- this is great so far." — Dec 06, 2017 07:34PM
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"“For girls, becoming women was inevitability for boys, becoming men was ambition.”" — Jun 23, 2018 08:32PM
"“For girls, becoming women was inevitability for boys, becoming men was ambition.”" — Jun 23, 2018 08:32PM
“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”
― Platform
― Platform
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.”
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“Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.”
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“I suspect that beneath your offensively and vulgarly effeminate façade there may be a soul of sorts. Have you read widely in Boethius?"
"Who? Oh, heavens no. I never even read newspapers."
"Then you must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age," Ignatius said solemnly. "Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius, of course. Then you should dip rather extensively into early Medieval. You may skip the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. That is mostly dangerous propaganda. Now that I think of it, you had better skip the Romantics and the Victorians, too. For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books."
"You're fantastic."
"I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
"Who? Oh, heavens no. I never even read newspapers."
"Then you must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age," Ignatius said solemnly. "Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius, of course. Then you should dip rather extensively into early Medieval. You may skip the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. That is mostly dangerous propaganda. Now that I think of it, you had better skip the Romantics and the Victorians, too. For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books."
"You're fantastic."
"I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
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