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"I really want to like it, but the inner monologue is soooo angsty." — May 05, 2025 05:20PM
"I really want to like it, but the inner monologue is soooo angsty." — May 05, 2025 05:20PM
“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
― Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
― Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
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“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Eli’s 2025 Year in Books
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