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“Most politicians are pigs...It's a funny thing about pigs...They have an odd way of keeping warm in winter if they find themselves outside. You see, pigs don't know if they're cold, provided their nose is warm. So they stand around in a circle with their nose between the hind legs of the pig in front of them. Would you call that a curious relationship?...I would call that a Satanic relationship.”
― Miami and the Siege of Chicago
― Miami and the Siege of Chicago
“There was an element of secrecy in a home library. It breathed of intellectual anarchy.”
― Earth Is Room Enough
― Earth Is Room Enough
“Racism may indeed carry out the doom of the Western world and, for that matter, of the whole of human civilization. When Russians have become Slavs, when Frenchmen have assumed the role of commanders of a force noire, when Englishmen have turned into “white men,” as already for a disastrous spell all Germans became Aryans, then this change will itself signify the end of Western man. For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The tragedy of man is that he has developed an intelligence eager to uncover mysteries, but not strong enough to penetrate them.”
― Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
― Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
“It is hard to understand why the modern West has been so much more troubled by sexual images than by violent ones. Murder has always been illegal in the West, but the representation of murder has rarely inspired the kind of hue and cry generated by the depiction of adults having sex. Those who claim that pornography will impel children to engage in sexual conduct seem not the least bit concerned that war stories and Westerns will encourage children to kill their neighbors. For all the talk of "sex and violence" on television, no one seems to blink at the amount of blood spilled in a boxing match, but one can only imagine the outcry that would follow if a similar amount of semen were shown in a bedroom scene of a daytime soap opera.”
― Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History
― Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History
Transgressive Fiction
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wikipedia: "Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and w ...more
The Gonzo Nihilist
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Is nothing good enough, or weird enough? Read on. This group is for the out there, the freaky, the mental adventurers. What books do you like that tak ...more
Cult Books
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— last activity Feb 06, 2012 08:59AM
Books inspire all sorts of reactions, from disgust to slavish devotion. I am interested in books which have had the effect of turning readers into "co ...more
I Love My Humor Dark. No Sugar, No Cream
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A celebration and conversation of all literature that is of the intelligent dark humor or satirical variety.
Dirty realism
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"Dirty realism is a term coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a North American literary movement. Writers in this sub-category of realis ...more
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