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There was something particularly American about it—blaming yourself for bad luck—that resistance to seeing your life as affected by social forces, a tendency to attribute larger problems to individual behavior. The ugly reverse of the
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
“Parents who name their children after themselves are stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
“Okay.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
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Bob’s 2025 Year in Books
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