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H.L. Mencken
“Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”
H.L. Mencken

David Foster Wallace
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
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Donald Barthelme
“The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
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John Steinbeck
“I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agonyof a lie is neverlost. That's a running sore”
John Steinbeck
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“Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.”
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