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The Adulterants
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“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
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“All wisdom ends in paradox.”
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“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.”
Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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