“after.” In the Preface to Volume Three he is less severe, and more persuasive: the Communist regime survived “not because there has not been any struggle against it from inside, not because people docilely surrendered to it, but because it is inhumanly strong, in a way as yet unimaginable to the West.” Among the elements of the state’s strength was its capacity to astonish, to dumbfound—and thus to delude. As Conquest says, “the reality of Stalin’s activities was often disbelieved because they seemed to be unbelievable . His whole style consisted of doing what had previously been thought morally or physically inconceivable.”
― Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
― Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
“That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“Some people at the party, she adds, are freaks, then mentions a drug I've never heard of, and tells me a story that involves ski masks, zombies, a van, chains, a secret community, and asks me about a Hispanic girl who disappeared in some desert.”
― Imperial Bedrooms
― Imperial Bedrooms
“I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”
― Geek Love
― Geek Love
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