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"It's fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan." (c)
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"You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I've asked you."
"You are an odd one... Haven't you any respect?"(c)
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She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's bett ...more
"It's fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan." (c)
Q:
"You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I've asked you."
"You are an odd one... Haven't you any respect?"(c)
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She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's bett ...more

I'm always skeptical when I read a classic. Simply because experience has taught me that a lot of them really aren't any good.
This one however, is. It's brilliant.
This book isn't a dystopian novel like others, where the government is evil and is suppressing the people by forcing them to admit one way of life as the right one. This is a novel about how people chose not to care anymore.
In a time when reading actual books has become fairly unusual and where entertainment is most commonly experie ...more
This one however, is. It's brilliant.
This book isn't a dystopian novel like others, where the government is evil and is suppressing the people by forcing them to admit one way of life as the right one. This is a novel about how people chose not to care anymore.
In a time when reading actual books has become fairly unusual and where entertainment is most commonly experie ...more

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it was amazing
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