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“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.”
― Against Method
― Against Method
“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”
― Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
― Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Alvian’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alvian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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219 friends
248 books
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388 friends
197 books
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158 friends
2 books
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122 friends
4 books
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178 friends
120 books
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242 friends
48 books
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153 friends
5 books
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41 friends
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