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  1. Michael Connelly _ Trunk Music

    Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California.
    book-quotesocietywealthlos-angeles

  2. Volatalistic Phil _ White Wedding Lies, and

    And somewhereout there,in the river ofaddicts, alcoholics,wife beaters,doormats,overeducated legalized thieves,fascist police,and bitter rivalries-someone told meit's a good city,and I don't knowwhat's more frightening
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  3. William Blake _ The Marriage of Heaven and

    Expect poison from the standing water.
    book-quotesocietymiddle-america

  4. H. Rider Haggard _ She: A History of Adventure

    We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
    book-quotesocietyhumanitysin

  5. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.
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  6. Charles Bukowski _ The Captain is Out to Lunch

    I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making words do a few things. I see enough of humanity at the racetracks, the supermarkets, gas stations, freeways, cafes, etc. This can´t be helped. But I feel like kicking myself in the ass when I go to gatherings, even if the drinks are free. It never works for me. I´ve got enough clay to play with. People empty me. I have to get away to refill. I´m what´s best for me, sitting here slouched, smoking a beedie and watching this creen flash the words. Seldom do you meet a rare or interesting person. It´s more than galling, it´s a fucking constant shock. It´s making a god-damned grouch out of me. Anybody can be a god-damned grouch and most are. Help!
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  7. Charles Bukowski _ Women

    Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.
    book-quotesocietyphilosophy

  8. Alain de Botton _ The Pleasures and Sorrows of

    It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.
    book-quotesocietypowerfame

  9. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.
    book-quotesocietyperseveranceinitiative

  10. Ellis Peters _ One Corpse Too Many

    So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?
    book-quotesocietystrangersknowledge-of-people

  11. Jean Baudrillard _ Simulacra and Simulation

    The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.
    book-quotesocietypowerreality

  12. Charles Darwin _ Voyage of the Beagle

    If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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