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I'm choosing to read this book for no other reason than the sheer delight of knowing I'm free to and there's not a damn thing anyone can do to stop me from doing so. If it exists, I'm probably going to read it. Deal with it.

'At the dinner, some accounts claim, it was a political toast that inflamed her. Stalin toasted the destruction of the Enemies of the State and noticed Nadya had not raised her glass. “Why aren’t you drinking?” he called over truculently, aware that she and Bukharin shared a disapproval of his starvation of the peasantry. She ignored him. To get her attention, Stalin tossed orange peel and flicked cigarettes at her.'

“Many people have told [Ted] that wrestling doesn’t fit in [his] ‘portfolio of programming’,” Hogan observed, “but Turner always stuck to his guns.

Fuck! Why is there always someone around trying to talk you out of your sincerest convictions? It's damn annoying.

'I feel bad for these millennials that will never know what it was like being a real kid. In the summer, with no homework to do, we wouldn’t see our parents for fifteen hours. We’d stay outside and make up games. There was no texting, no cell phones, no one sending you a fucking emoji on your birthday. There isn’t an emoji that can capture how we felt and what we experienced during those summer nights.'

'“When I came into this business seven years ago,” lamented Nash, surrounded by various nWo members, “I looked down the road that you guys paved for us, and I saw nothing but potholes. You guys came into this business, strip-mined it, you took what you could get out of it…and you left the young guys behind you with nothing.'

Finally, Ted turned his attention towards Burke, the President of the TBS network, which was suffering from an unusual ratings slump. “‘And let’s hear it from the king of the network that’s… number one with 18-49 year old one-eyed cocksuckers - go ahead Bill!’” The Turner execs doubled over in laughter. “Well Ted, that’s a very important constituency,” Burke responded, playing along as Jerry Levin looked dumbfounded.