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“Scribimus indocti doctique”

“First novels are generally indigestible, like a soul-and-kidney pie that has been baking ever since adolescence.”

“Rahel drifted toward marriage like a passenger drifts toward an unoccupied chair in an airport lounge. With a Sitting Down sense.”

Loving the voice.

Having the narrator tell the reader, "Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette." Fourth wall breaking in a very understated and wry way.

“Even when words remain the same, they mean something very different when they are uttered by a minority struggling against repressive measures and when expressed by a group that has attained power and then uses ideas that were once weapons of emancipation as instruments for keeping the power and wealth they have obtained.”

“Since the consequences of business are social, society must itself look after, by means of increased organized control, the industrial and financial causes of these consequences.”

“Life is a hospital where every patient is obsessed by the desire of changing beds.”

“Until a man is twenty-five, he thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.”

“Every one was desirous to dictate to the rest, and every one was pleased to hear the genius or knowledge of another depreciated.”

Sounds like internet commenters.

"it is well to avoid things which may bring some profit to the living when it is done with the intention of profiting our descendants still more"

“There is so much infelicity, said the poet, in the world, that scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the comparative happiness of others.”

“men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.”

“[Trump] is the first president in American history whose average public statement on any subject cannot be granted any kind of presumption of factual accuracy.”

“The bronzed Dakota is the only real man.”

Ok, I’m listening, I’m listening

"every death is for others a simplification of life, it spares them the necessity of showing gratitude, the obligation of paying calls."

“totally unlettered in the language of the heart”

“For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures.”

Could we get some more consonants in Ariaeus, please?

tantum religio potuit suadere malorum