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“Brandolini's law, developed in the context of twenty-first social media, is equally applicable to 1920s Klan-speak: 'The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it.”
― The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
― The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“In the very core of my ignoble heart I longed to be betrayed by you and by her”
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“But for her the race of the world would have trampled him under foot, a squashed boneless snail. She had loved his weak watery blood drained from her own. Was that then real? The only true thing in life?”
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