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It was the height of foolishness, academia. You sank down and down in debt, in desperation, in hunger, so that you could feel a little special, a little brilliant in your small, dark corner of the universe, knowing something that no one
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“All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.”
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“She had never seen Rosewater County, had no idea what a night-crawler was, did not know that land anywhere could be so deathly flat, that people anywhere could be so deathly dull.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“I look at these people, these Americans," Eliot went on, "and I realize that they can't even care about themselves any more—because they have no use. The factory, the farms, the mines across the river—they're almost completely automatic now. And America doesn't even need these people for war—not any more.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“All else was shithouses, shacks, alcoholism, ignorance, idiocy and perversion, for all that was healthy and busy and intelligent in Rosewater County shunned the county seat.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“The difference between pornography and art is bodily hair!”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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