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I'm not done with this collection of short stories yet - I'm one of those oddballs who likes to pop in and out of these, rather than reading the collection in one uninterrupted siege. I find that often, after I finish a particularly good (or bad) nov
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“Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.”
― So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
― So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
“Few would argue against safe-guarding the nation. But in the judgment of at least one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars, the legal steps taken by the Bush Administration in its war against terrorism were a quantum leap beyond earlier blots on the country's history and traditions: more significant than John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts, than Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War, than the imprisonment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. Collectively, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued, the Bush Administration's extralegal counter-terrorism program presented the most dramatic, sustained, and radical challenge to the rule of law in American history.”
― The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
― The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
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