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Book: The Verificationist
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  1. Donald Antrim _ The Verificationist

    Readers of symbols are forever at the mercy of desire.
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  2. Donald Antrim _ The Verificationist

    Relationships are like powerful moods that people share.
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  3. Donald Antrim _ The Verificationist

    I think most observance is really more a way of conceptualizing day-to-day life as what it actually is for many people, a progress of meaningful failures.
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  4. Donald Antrim _ The Verificationist

    Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.
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  5. Donald Antrim _ The Verificationist

    Let him hurl these pieces of toast like new and radical ideas that must be cast into the world. Pieces of toast like angry children who will hit us and upset us and change our ways of thinking and feeling.
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  6. Donald Antrim _ The Verificationist

    Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.
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  7. Donald Antrim _ The Verificationist

    We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.
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  8. Donald Antrim _ The Verificationist

    We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes.
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  9. Donald Antrim _ The Verificationist

    There is nothing more seductive - and dangerous - than being listened to."
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