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"Stalled out on this one. I'll get back to it at a later time, but for now, I need to read something a little less dry and academic. Crick spends a lot of time on Orwell's childhood, of which Orwell wrote very little. Lots of boring minutiae, plus Orwell's childhood was depressingly absent of any teen sexcapades, dysfunctional family drama, or enchanted wardrobes." — Jun 13, 2017 09:17AM
"Stalled out on this one. I'll get back to it at a later time, but for now, I need to read something a little less dry and academic. Crick spends a lot of time on Orwell's childhood, of which Orwell wrote very little. Lots of boring minutiae, plus Orwell's childhood was depressingly absent of any teen sexcapades, dysfunctional family drama, or enchanted wardrobes." — Jun 13, 2017 09:17AM
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
“The idea that pornography is intrinsically exploitative and sexist is bizarre: pornography is just some fucking, after all. The act of having sex isn’t sexist, so there’s no way pornography can be, in itself, inherently misogynist.
So no. Pornography isn’t the problem. Strident feminists are fine with pornography. It’s the porn industry that’s the problem. The whole thing is as offensive, sclerotic, depressing, emotionally bankrupt and desultory as you would expect a widely unregulated industry worth, at an extremely conservative estimate, $30 billion to be. No industry ever made that amount of money without being superlatively crass and dumb.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
So no. Pornography isn’t the problem. Strident feminists are fine with pornography. It’s the porn industry that’s the problem. The whole thing is as offensive, sclerotic, depressing, emotionally bankrupt and desultory as you would expect a widely unregulated industry worth, at an extremely conservative estimate, $30 billion to be. No industry ever made that amount of money without being superlatively crass and dumb.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
― Salman Rushdie
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
― Salman Rushdie
“If a Member of the Senate wants to look that veteran in the eyes and say to him or her that they think we cannot afford to help that individual who sacrificed so much for this country have a family, well go do that. Tell that individual that you think we cannot afford to help him or her, but when you do that, I hope you will also tell him why you voted to give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 2 percent at a time when the wealthiest people in this country are doing phenomenally well. Virtually all of my Republican colleagues thought it was appropriate to provide huge tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.”
― Jonathan Tasini, The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America
― Jonathan Tasini, The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America
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