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McCarthy and the others would not have chosen the path they chose unless it worked for them and achieved their selfish ends. It continues to work today because a lazy, ill-informed electorate is willing to abdicate its responsibility to the
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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
― Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― The Way to Rainy Mountain
― The Way to Rainy Mountain
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk.”
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“Before you argue with someone, ask yourself, is that person even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of a different perspective. Because if not, there's absolutely no point.”
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“History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.”
― A Feast for Crows
― A Feast for Crows
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