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Without light, there cannot be shadow. Without shadow, we cannot exist.
“Ronald is a very shrewd, crazy, and determined killer who is not from Delaware where there are few thinkers but too many fools who had the inability to mind their own business. They both bemoaned this fact about Delaware.”
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“Not dying when everybody else did die is like dying harder than everybody else.”
― Three Hundred Million
― Three Hundred Million
“Show me just *one* group that has won its freedom with facts, ‘reasoned’ arguments, thoughtful ideas, and loud debates. Just one.”
― i just want freedom
― i just want freedom
“When an acquaintance commiserated upon hearing of the loss of America’s capital, Franklin replied, “You mistake the matter. Instead of Howe taking Philadelphia, Philadelphia has taken Howe.”
― The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
― The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“If men knew how often women are filled with white-hot rage when we cry, they would be staggered, I remember someone saying the other day, through the groaning static of my house's ancient intercom system. We self-objectify and lose the ability to even recognize the physiological changes that indicate anger. Mainly, though, we get sick. And oh, how true that is: We sicken, we are consumed, laughing wild amidst severest woe. We flourish with illnesses that have no cure and a thousand different names. Hysteria, the lung, wandering womb syndrome. Our own immune systems turn against us, fight us as if we ourselves were diseases, infestations. We wither, we swell, miscarry, grow phantom pregnancies, ingest our babies and turn them to stone. Our wounds fester, turn inside-out. Our equipment rusts and degenerates from over-use or lack of use or potential for use alike, decays within us, sliming blackly over the rest of our pulsing, stuttering interiors. Things get lost inside us: penises, forceps, scalpels. No maps to the interior. And every once in a while, we simply flush our systems without adequate warning, drooling blood in clots from inconvenient areas, dropping squalling flesh-lumps everywhere—in trash-cans, in bathrooms, shoved under beds and swaddled in bloodied plastic, buried shallowly, immured behind walls that bulge with black mould-stains, pumping out flies.”
― Hymns of Abomination
― Hymns of Abomination
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