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“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.”
― Hannah Arendt

“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“dropped asleep”
― Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches [with Biographical Introduction]

“the next task was to minister to their minds”
― Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches [with Biographical Introduction]

“for mothers a widow”
― Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches [with Biographical Introduction]

“and all I can say of them is that they dressed in the worst possible taste”
― Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches [with Biographical Introduction]

“As no two persons see the same thing with the same eyes”
― Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches [with Biographical Introduction]

“was on a private jet with Mark the day he finally understood that Facebook probably did put Donald Trump in the White House”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“Years later”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“You weren’t responsive enough,” he says. “In my defense”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism