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“Hell is other people chewing.”
― Intimacy Idiot
― Intimacy Idiot
“What they wanted from a hog was all the profits that could be got out of him; and that was what they wanted from the workingman, and also that was what they wanted from the public. What the hog thought of it, and what he suffered, were not considered; and no more was it with labor, and no more with the purchaser of meat.”
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“How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life.”
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“One moment you can say the words 'I am'. And the next, you have no first person, no present tense, and no entitlement, as a subject, to act on verbs of any kind.”
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“At a certain point, it seems more polite to just become the person people assume you to be.”
― The Folded Clock: A Diary
― The Folded Clock: A Diary
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