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This is the first legal page that mentions how the words can't be used to train AI.

Oh no no no no no

"they and all their friends belonged to an imprecise political left. They identified as feminists and spoke out against social injustices, which in practice meant they were willing to express outrage at instances of racism or sexist that took place in New York"

"but in the eyes of the empire such a thing can never be called love, because the directive was never in the first place, love, but rather, love me. In spite of it all, love me." This entire section is incredible

"victims of empire aren't murdered. Their killers aren't butchers, their killers aren't anything at all. Victims of empire don't die, they simply cease to exist. They burn away like fog."

"'Yes We Can' is a conditional. 'Yes We Will' is not."

"we are all governed by chance. We are all subjects of distance."

"but decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough natives have been killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight."

"history is simple." Mrs Reed said, "it's the past that's complicated"

"Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion"

"avarice, like love, has the gift of second sight, instinctively guessing at future contingencies, and hugging its presentiments."

"sex was often bracketed by both humiliation and flattery; awkwardness and beauty were found in the spaces between."

"God needs the hermit in the woods as much as he needs the man in the pulpit."

"if the mortal sin of suicide is greed, to hoard stillness and calm for yourself while dispersing your riotous internal pain among those who survive you then the mortal sin of the martyr must be the pride, the vanity, the hubris to believe not only that your death could mean more than your living, but that your death could mean more than death itself - which, because it is in inevitable, means nothing."

I've just finished the first essay and I've been consuming a lot of comedy content and I am concerned I'm going to read these as little comedic bits as opposed to personal essays. Also he's not wrong about star ratings I do fear I will need to justify my star ratings at some point in the future and 175 words is more effective at conveying thoughts than a number...

"the Ghost of Fear and Poverty, which seized the minds of millions of people in 1929, was so real that it caused the worst business depression this country has ever known. Moreover, this particular ghost still frightens some of us out of our wits" i need to know if someone said this about 2007 or any crypto scam artist.

Vinny has a political science degree omg

the photos are peak late 2000s - early 2010s nostalgia. I want a digital camera rn.

This whole child support/abortion section has aged extremely poorly in the US

"I fall asleep without masturbating, so perhaps I am an ethical person"

Jolene is actually unhinged, what is going on.

I'm crying at Wallace Shawn talking about Danny DeVito. This poor man but this is hilarious

"See chapter 7. If you still disagree, meet me at the car park closest to your house at 4pm on Friday and I will fight you"

"Suzette, at eight? Love, M.
Say please. J.
Pleased to see you at Suzette at eight. Love, M."

"I suppose I do have a suitor but I'm not really used to him yet. He's terribly charming and he plies me with delicious meals, but I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backwards, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turned out to be true" omg

"Dear Mr Reynolds, I captured your delivery boy in the act of depositing a clutch of pink carnations on to my doorstep. I seized him and threatened him until he confessed your address- you see, Mr Reynolds, you are not the only one who can inveigle innocent employees. I hope you don't sack him; he seems a nice boy, and he really had no alternative- I menaced him with Remembrance of Things Past." This whole page!!

Hated prep when I read it as a teenager. Let's see how we go 10 years later Curtis.

"perhaps because I cannot give my mother my truth, I offer her someone else's." This pace I'm change - I need to finish this now

"'i guess I'm not particularly threatened by him. Like, there are some things about being human he is never going to get. Like, he's never going to understand why 'Dick in a Box's is funny." This elicited...almost a laugh. A proto-laugh.' im-

'"just FYI" he said. "Persians greet each other by cheek-kissing, so you're about to get a rapid-fire cheek assault."
"Like in Borat?"
"Just like in Borat"
Oh nooooo not the chokehold Borat had on Millennials and Gen X.