Kyle York
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“I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody.
They may be teaching that still.
Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’
I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
They may be teaching that still.
Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’
I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“It’s probably part of my naïveté that I don’t want to put the issue in political terms when it’s probably irreducibly political. Something has happened where we’ve decided on a personal level that it’s all right to abdicate our individual responsibility to the common good and let government worry about the common good while we all go about our individual self-interested business and struggle to gratify our various appetites.”
― The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
― The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
“Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.”
― Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
― Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
“Communities can be as ruthless as markets.”
― Economics: A Very Short Introduction
― Economics: A Very Short Introduction
“... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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