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The vulgarity and confrontational vocabulary clearly apes HST, but Taibbi delves more substantively into the politics circus.
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After discarding Proust, this has become my new large reading ambition. The stories are true--it's comically thick.
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“War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”
― Don DeLillo's White Noise
― Don DeLillo's White Noise
“Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.”
― Notes And Lectures Upon Shakespeare And Some Of The Old Poets And Dramatists
― Notes And Lectures Upon Shakespeare And Some Of The Old Poets And Dramatists
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”
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By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”
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