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Wilfred Owen
“The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.”
Wilfred Owen

V.S. Naipaul
“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...”
V.S. Naipaul, Magic Seeds

Sinclair Lewis
“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
Sinclair Lewis

Saul Bellow
“Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.”
Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift

John Updike
“You are still you. The U.S. is still the U.S., held together by credit cards and Indian names”
John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

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