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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
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Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451
Every hour so many damn things in the sky! How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years...Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!
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George Eliot _ Adam Bede
How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind-impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The March of Folly: From Troy
Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of
The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of
Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
book-quote selfishness pride hypocrisy