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““Some believed that Satan had come to earth in human form as a party activist, his collective farm register a book of hell, promising torment and damnation.””

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“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”

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“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: “Nay, come,…

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“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of…

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“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.”

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“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the…

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“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.”

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“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see…

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“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.…

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“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.”

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“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.”

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“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt the president…

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“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.”

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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