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The Would-Be President: An American Farce
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In the space of one day a sensitive, wealthy girl is introduced to the dignity of those less fortunate than her, to the callousness of her social set toward them, and to how ready the affluent are to intellectualize away moral qualms for the sake of ...more | |
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This play balances a character of constancy, principle and conscience against a whole mob of shitheads who enjoy none of these qualities. Interesting to me is the mixture of respect and resentment that this character of conscience creates in those ch ...more | |
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Allegory at its frankest. Mutis shows a boat chugging up a river through an Amazonian jungle. This boat is us as individuals. The captain of the boat is our mind. The passenger of the boat is our spirit. The boat is our body. Crazy shit comes at us o ...more | |
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A caper. Some heavy duty irony, too, since you’ve got thefts, vanity, deception, attempted adultery and deals with the devil going on just as Christ’s birth is being celebrated. There’s also some anger and envy and greed, if you really look, which ro ...more | |
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3.5 stars Superficially this truly amusing book is about the history of the bicyclist in Amsterdam. But it was impossible for me to read through its hilarious anecdotes without being reminded that human beings express themselves through all mediums, n ...more |
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“Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering.”
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“Where there is great pride or great wealth, men soon come to believe that their appetites are their wisdom.”
― Die schwarze Spinne
― Die schwarze Spinne

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five

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