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  1. Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens

    Let him get stoned, since everybody must.
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  2. Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens

    You could harbor a man in your bed or your body, play on his nervous system like Paderewski at the keyboard, and not shift his brain one inch out of the concrete of dogma. {p. 5}
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  3. Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens

    They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. {p. 4}
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  4. Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens

    She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.
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  5. Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens

    Her fiercest sincerities were translated by the male ego, on arrival, into daffy flirtation. {p. 24}
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  6. Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens

    The whole state of Maine is unlocked.
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  7. Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens

    {I}t was by Cicero's attainments that that he'd gained special witness to the liberals' adjustment to a brush with equality.
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  8. Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens

    Astrology fell into the class of a ...and not worth the efforts of the debunking engine Cicero had been born with in place of a brain. Cicero's capacities were reserved for lies that mattered. Ideology, though that word was yet unknown to him: the veil of sustaining fiction that drove the world, what people to believe. This, Cicero wished to unmask and unmake, decry and destroy. {p. 65}
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  9. Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens

    You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry."
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