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“It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.”
― David Foster Wallace

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth