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"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a booksoret, i knows it's not foolin' a soul"

"Tom had a hunch about Reddington. He was a comic-book artist. He probably didn't know whether he was coming or going."

The important thing to understand about American history...is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. For the most part it is uninspected, unimagined, unthought, a representation of the thing, and not the thing itself. It is a fine fiction...\

Every hour wounds. The last hour kills.
—OLD SAYING

"It's what all the great agents do: they make the most incredible and illogical advice sound reasonable, they make you go ahead without fear, and that way you get it, you get more or less what you want, or you get something, anyway; at least you don't end up with nothing when you go ahead without fear, when you lunge into the darkness as if you were operating on the soundest advice in the world."

Designed to portray water as the source of life, the nudes had been condemned by Maria Theresa.
"She was a bitch," Freud said. "She founded a Chastity Commission," he told us.
"What did they do?" Franny asked. "The Chastity Commission?"
"What could they do?" Freud asked. "What can those people ever do? They couldn't do anything to stop the sex, so they fucked around with a few fountains."

"[Y]our country is the ultimate triumph of corporate creativity...controlled by the group-thinking of corporations...without humanity because there is no one personally responsible for their use of power; a corporation is like a computer with profit as its source of energy—and profit as its necessary fuel. The United States is—you'll forgive me—quite the worst country in the world for a humanist to live in, I think."

According to Frank, religion is just another kind of taxidermy.