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I remember the shock of hearing my college roommate talk to her mother on the phone: The detailed minutia, her lack of censorship seemed decadent.
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Diggers
― Diggers
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.
[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
― The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
― The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
Chuck’s 2025 Year in Books
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