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jobiwan6 said: " Has anyone ever actually finished this book????
I've been picking at it (like a scab) for over 30 years now, and the only time it makes any sense is when I'm under the influence. Then, it can seem very amusing & profound. Maybe with a bottle of absint ...more "

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The Godspeaker Trilogy by Karen Miller

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Hekat was right, people were stupid. They knew the godspeakers walked the streets in the quiet time, they knew if they were found sinning they would pay a heavy price. And yet they took that chance, they risked the god’s wrath.

Sociopath

by Patric Gagne

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As Meat Loves Salt

by Maria McCann

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“I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.”
― Groucho Marx

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“In the history of American democracy, we have had undisciplined presidents. We have had inexperienced presidents. We have had amoral presidents. Rarely if ever before have we had them all at once.”
― Anonymous, A Warning

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“I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians [Englisch Edition]

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“The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference; the doubter fights only with himself.”
― Graham Greene, Monsignor Quixote

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“America was exhausted. The libertarians had made freedom unbearable, the evangelicals had made faith unbearable, the social justice movement had made equality unbearable, the lawyers had made justice unbearable, loud people in Uncle Sam hats had made patriotism unbearable, and the entirety of capitalism over the last two centuries had made industry unbearable. Americans were sick of all the virtues and ready for a straightforward, no-nonsense villain.”
― Scott Alexander, Unsong

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