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"Wait. I thought people in this world couldn't have children. Where did young children come from?" — May 24, 2023 06:17AM
"Wait. I thought people in this world couldn't have children. Where did young children come from?" — May 24, 2023 06:17AM
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"Oh gosh. I can't believe I just read a portion of this book that is helpful with the article I'm writing today. While I will explain that acetyl pyrroline is responsible for the popcorn-like aroma in basmati rice, I'm afraid I should probably leave out the part where pyrroline provides the scent for semen." — Feb 28, 2023 07:48AM
"Oh gosh. I can't believe I just read a portion of this book that is helpful with the article I'm writing today. While I will explain that acetyl pyrroline is responsible for the popcorn-like aroma in basmati rice, I'm afraid I should probably leave out the part where pyrroline provides the scent for semen." — Feb 28, 2023 07:48AM
The freedom to critique one’s country, he felt with increasing urgency, was the role of the artist in a free nation.


“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
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