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Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty

by Vine Deloria Jr.

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JacK’s Quotes

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

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“Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works

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“It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music,
sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to
produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae
to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any
more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself.
Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make
things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's
formulae.”
― William S. Burroughs

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“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”
― Martin Heidegger

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“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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