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Ari Santillanes
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Oh no. A leaf blower. The easiest way to witness stupidity and misplaced hopes of all humanity is to watch, for twenty minutes, a human using a leaf blower. With this machine, the man was saying, I will murder all quiet. I will destroy the aural plane. And I will do so with a machine that performs a task far less efficiently than I could with a rake.
— Aug 30, 2017 02:28PM
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They nodded vigorously, wanting to be brave, knowing there was nothing greater than being brave. Josie knew, then, that better than searching for a person of courage - she'd been on this search for years, dear god - better and possibly easier than searching for such people in the extant world was to create them.She didn't need to find humans of integrity and courage. She needed to make them.
— Aug 30, 2017 02:41PM
Ari Santillanes
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She did not want to scar her son this way, with the knowledge of her frailty, her aptitude to be abandoned by her pseudo-sister and to get hit by Homeric delivery trucks, sent into a ditch. But the introduction of frailty in a parent - is this so terrible? It should, perhaps, be introduced right away, so the shock is not so great later. We are better when we expect tragedy, calamity, chaos.
— Aug 30, 2017 02:31PM
Ari Santillanes
is on page 154 of 400
Her best friend's were her oldest friends, who did not expect constant contact. Everyone else was disappointed.
— Jul 31, 2017 09:04AM
Ari Santillanes
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Her best friend's were her oldest friends, who did not expect constant contact. Everyone else was disappointed.
— Jul 31, 2017 09:04AM
Ari Santillanes
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The purpose of the whiskey maker, it seemed, was to make the drinker gag.
— Jul 31, 2017 08:24AM
Ari Santillanes
is on page 141 of 400
The purpose of the whiskey maker, it seemed, was to make the drinker gag.
— Jul 31, 2017 08:24AM
Ari Santillanes
is on page 29 of 400
She had been comfortable, and comfort is the death of the soul, which is by nature searching, insistent, unsatisfied.
— Jul 10, 2017 02:05PM

