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Slapstick
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I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic.
“Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.”
― A Madness So Discreet
― A Madness So Discreet
“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“The amount a person can spare is relative; the value of generosity is not.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“Heartless it may be, but headless it ain't. I've never claimed to be nice, just to be sensible.”
― Lords and Ladies
― Lords and Ladies
“Trees stand at the heart of ecology, and they must come to stand at the heart of human politics.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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