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“There is an old saying,” his uncle had replied. “It says that a golden key will unlock any door. I send her a check every month, and in return I get to visit at Christmas.”
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
― All the Trouble in the World
― All the Trouble in the World
“Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.”
― The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
― The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.”
― The Wise Woman and Other Stories
― The Wise Woman and Other Stories
“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
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Susannah’s 2025 Year in Books
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