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Angel Down

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A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara (Goodreads Author)

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May 28, 2026 06:22AM

“Host and sorrow to waste as one without distinction until the wretched coagulant is shoveled into the ground at last and the rain primes the stones for fresh tragedies.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris

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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought

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“But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

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“That’s the whole game: Becoming convinced that there is a voice inside you that really, really knows what it likes, and getting better at hearing that voice and acting on its behalf. [...] How emphatically can you like what you like? How long are you willing to work on something, to ensure that every bit of it gets infused with some trace of your radical preference?" -George Saunders”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

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